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Shelley Moore Capito: “A lot of it is replenishing the weapons that we've been…”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Published | Video Starts at 03:46

Where are you on the idea of a skinny reconciliation 3.0? Well, the President has asked for a 40% increase in our national security, and A lot of it is replenishing the weapons that we've been using and that we've sold to Ukraine and that we've used in the Middle East. And so I think it's important for our own security to realize that this, a lot of this will go not just to our benefit but to our great industrial manufacturing sector, which is domestically and that's jobs. (03:46–03:55)

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Asserts that increased national security funding is for replenishing weapons used in Ukraine and the Middle East.

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