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Tom Cole: “Trump has, it did increase the size of the defense budget.”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 15:37

They have like 170 odd engineers working there. It's an amazing facility. But the point is it's investment and growth in both the contracting community and then frankly in the military itself. I mean, Trump has, it did increase the size of the defense budget. He's proposed a very substantial increase in three different components this year. One is to increase the base budget. We've done that in the House, passed it out of committee. (15:37–15:41)

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