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Ed Markey: President Trump wants to cut the State Department budget by 37 percent, and then move the money over to the Defense…

On the recordMarch 14, 2017
President Trump wants to cut the State Department budget by 37 percent, and then move the money over to the Defense Department in order to build more bombs.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey criticizes Trump's proposed budget cuts to the State Department.

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