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Elissa Slotkin: “The largest supplemental request that we ever received here…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 04:04

Which, just for perspective, at the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, like when we have hundreds of thousands of troops and personnel and equip pieces of equipment in those two countries, The largest supplemental request that we ever received here on Capitol Hill...was 90 billion at the height of [the Iraq and Afghanistan] wars. those two wars. And they're. They're asking for 200 billion today. So it is, again, I, as someone who was at the Pentagon and at the CIA, I think it's important that we, as much as possible, remain objective about national security things. (04:04–04:25)

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Asserts that the largest previous war funding request was $90 billion during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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