I think we should freeze, for example, domestic discretionary. We should make cuts in the social spending and push that spending back to the point where it will accommodate a 5 or 6 percent of GNP being spent on national security.
Hunter advocates for cutting social spending to increase defense budget.
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I have ongoing concerns with the Coast Guard being an armed service within the Department of Homeland Security.
I would hope there is crossover. All the lessons learned and the billions of dollars spent in Afghanistan over the last decade, the people that have been doing that there transferring their knowledge and capability to you.
Nothing has happened, technologically in 5 or 6 years, so that is understandable.
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