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John Thune: “We did, as you know, put a significant amount of funding…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Thune Joins The Hugh Hewitt Show

Published | Video Starts at 06:35

And the Democrats seem very unwilling to do that. But. So if a supplemental is necessary, we'll obviously entertain it. The White House sends it up. We did, as you know, put a significant amount of funding last summer in the working Families tax cuts bill for, for defense. But, you know, obviously this, this costs money and we need to make sure that we keep, sure, keep our munitions built up so that we, the deterrence is always the, the best thing that we can do as a country. (06:35–06:43)

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Asserts that significant defense funding was included in the Working Families Tax Cuts Bill.

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