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Elissa Slotkin: “The Department of Defense has now been in this war [in Iran]…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Published | Video Starts at 07:28

Also, on national security issues, the ongoing cost of the war in Iran to our military, and the lack of any clarity on how that money is being spent, The Department of Defense has now been in this war [in Iran] for six months. They said it was going to be six weeks. It's been six months. And they have yet to show us, A, a strategic plan on how to get out of it, or, B, any sort of true accounting of … (07:28–07:34)

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Asserts that the Department of Defense expected the war in Iran to last six weeks but it has lasted six months.

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