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Pat Fallon: “The Defense Department would save them a half a billion…”

Featuring: Pat Fallon, Republican | U.S. House Texas, District 4

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Published | Video Starts at 05:18

A brief question to Mr. Fallon, if I might, if he would take a question? Yeah, sure. The money for these contracts, does it come from the Department of Defense's appropriations? I know it saves the. Yeah, The Defense Department would save them a half a billion dollars. So it is the Defense Department dollars? I believe so. Thank you. Reclaiming my time in the reconciliation bill, there's 150, maybe $170 billion for the Border Security, Department of … (05:18–05:22)

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Asserts that the Defense Department would save $500 million.

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