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Ken Calvert: “I had to cut $17 billion out of the defense budget in order…”

Featuring: Ken Calvert, Republican | U.S. House, California, District 41

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Chairman Ken Calvert on the debt deal, how to put money into modern warfare and the CCP

Published | Video Starts at 07:26

Yeah, they're a little concerned right now because we had, based upon, you know, we were looking at an increase, a minimum of three to 5% based upon the Mattis national defense strategy. And so I had to get to the pv. I had to cut $17 billion out of the defense budget in order to meet that goal. So, yeah, there's going to be some unhappy people. They're all trying to, you know, get their two cent in, but we don't have two cent. You're poor staff. (07:26–07:34)

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