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Ron Johnson: “Your original game plan was to consolidate as much as…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avoiding government duplication

Published | Video Starts at 13:36

We will still be doing training with some of our other partners up here in terms of law enforcement training. And that would have been true even with the Fort Pickett facility. Yes. Okay, so again, Your original game plan was to consolidate as much as possible. That was going to cost 900 some million dollars, almost a billion. And then that was too expensive. You split out the hard versus the soft. Yet FLETC basically gave you a complete, a total consolidation, which was the original concept behind the Fort Pickett facility. (13:36–13:43)

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Asserts that the original plan to consolidate training facilities was estimated to cost nearly a billion dollars.

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