When I look at your budget and the budget request cuts more than 700 civilian jobs while increasing the full time equivalent of contractor jobs by more than 2,300, it seems like we are going in the wrong direction.
Durbin criticizes the budget for cutting civilian jobs while increasing contractor positions.
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