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Ted Cruz: “This provision tries to reverse what President Trump did and…”

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

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Sens. Cruz and Cantwell Hold Press Conference on Stripping Section 373 from the NDAA

Published | Video Starts at 22:46

And unfortunately, the Pentagon had implemented a policy of using the exception 100% of the time that was indefensible. And so this provision Part of the reason nobody's claiming credit for it in the House is This provision tries to reverse what President Trump did and it tries to reverse what Secretary Duffy did. and that's, that's not defensible. Senator Cantwell wants to. Well, we, we did hear, I think it was a statement put out by the SAS committee in House and Senate … (22:46–22:55)

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Asserts that the provision attempts to reverse actions by President Trump and Secretary Duffy.

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