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On the recordJanuary 2, 2018
It is just so strange to me that we force the Department of State, and in particular, the European section to make these tradeoffs, to accept the inevitability of shrinking aid budgets, when we do not expect the Department of Defense to do the same.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Murphy criticizes unequal funding expectations between State and Defense Departments.

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