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On the recordMay 23, 2023
Burden-sharing comes up. We like to say that we are only doing 3.5 percent. We mislead the American people when we say that. It is well over 4 percent.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California

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Sherman critiques the misleading statistics regarding U.S. military burden-sharing.

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