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

Rep. Ken Calvert on Bidens Arms Embargo on Israel talks California's inflation problem.

Published May 17, 2024 | Video Starts at 00:06

I want to begin by asking you what do you make of President Biden's arms embargo? What can you do about it? Well, it's outrageous, it's hard to believe, you know this, he President Biden picked this moment to cut off support [to] Israel. Obvious, you know, is entering the final stages of removing Hamas from Gaza. And we passed this bill, we the supplemental just recently and we also passed the appropriations bill … (00:06–00:13)

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Asserts that President Biden has cut off support to Israel.

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“Deterrence got the contract to build those two new aircraft.”
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“The United States pretty much left the ship building business and now we have to rebuild our capability.”
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“We can't even meet our schedules on our Virginia class submarine, which we should be at two a year. We're less than one and a half per year.”
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“There's not enough money in the appropriation bill that I'm doing now, the FY25 bill.”
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“We are working with Australia under the Lotus program, and we're in Australia's committed money to do that.”
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