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Stephen Kinzer: “Most of the discretionary spending in our entire federal…”

Featuring: Stephen Kinzer, Critic of interventionist U.S. foreign policy | Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs | National

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Tulsi Gabbard and Stephen Kinzer Discuss U.S. Foreign Policy and the Cost of War

Published | Video Starts at 56:14

That's an interesting debate to have. But they would both agree there's a huge pot of money out there that nobody is touching. It's Most of the discretionary spending in our entire federal budget is not only wasteful but undermines our national position. actually winds up undermining our national position, we're not going to have the resources to address the problems that we have here at home. I think that's exactly right. (56:14–56:20)

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Asserts that a significant portion of discretionary federal spending is wasteful and harmful to national interests.

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