Funding to sequester levels removes flexibility to respond to emergent challenges.
Roger Wicker: “Funding to sequester levels removes flexibility to respond to emergent challenges.”
On the recordFebruary 3, 2015
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Wicker highlights the risks of sequestration on military readiness.
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