John Thune: “We spent four years under Biden where defense spending…”

“And lastly on the Iran war, looks like Pete Hagsett saying, the Secretary of War, you're going to need $200 billion more. Your thoughts? Well, you know, look, I mean, We spent four years under Biden where defense spending didn't even keep up with the rate of inflation. So things had fallen way behind. And we're trying to catch up now. And we are in a conflict with Iran that has no question about it.” (14:06–14:12)

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