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the fact remains that there are must-pay bills and urgent requirements facing the department that affect the ability of our troops to be well trained and more broadly of the U.S. military to deter and defend against potential aggressors…
They don’t have them yet. The orders were placed, but they couldn’t [process] the orders when the government was shut down.
“I believe that all of us must avoid that kind of dangerous and disturbing rhetoric, because it could in fact trigger violence,” Collins added.
But to be fair to the Department of Homeland Security, they couldn’t enter into contracts when the government was shut down by the Democrats.





