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Ted Cruz: “This is the single largest investment in the Coast Guard in…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Yep. The Coast Guard is in our jurisdiction. So I wrote the Coast Guard provision $24 billion for the Coast Guard. This is the single largest investment in the Coast Guard in the history of the United States of America. To give you a sense of the scope of the order of magnitude, the annual budget of the coast guard is about $12 billion. (30:45–30:51)

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