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Patty Murray: “The budget spends $1.5 trillion on war and slashes your…”

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One and a half trillion dollars for war, not a cent for childcare, not a cent to make health care more affordable. That's The budget spends $1.5 trillion on war and slashes your department to ribbons. ribbons. So that is what is concerning to me as you come before our committee today to back this request up. It just seems to me we are cutting diplomacy and paying defense contractors. (06:32–06:39)

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Asserts that the budget allocates $1.5 trillion to war while significantly cutting the State Department.

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