Jon Tester actually said...

from my perspective, if you need $1.3 billion for the new hires that we are hiring and it is not in the budget for 2018, we are not doing our job.

Tester emphasizes the need for budget allocation to retain new hires.

03/02/2016

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If you want to carry out our trust obligation to Indian Country, this is what we need.

So, you're confident that the budget will reflect the realities, even with our removal from the JCPOA.

Are we making headway? Look, I mean, I don't--I'm not indicating that I think that this isn't a valiant effort. It is.

It's a complicated world. And I don't need to tell you that. And Afghanistan is incredibly complicated.