Barbara Lee from California and I started a Pentagon spending reduction caucus when we were spending roughly 650 plus or minus $20 billion on defense to try to keep it in check. They failed the last eight audits. They can only account for 55% of their equipment. and yet we keep giving them money. And that was to hold it in. We're at a trillion dollars now, six years later, and the President wants a trillion and a half dollars for essentially defense contractors. (28:24–28:30)
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