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Cory Booker: “I guess what I do not understand is why are we ratcheting down investments there, ratcheting up investments on the…”

On the recordJune 19, 2018
I guess what I do not understand is why are we ratcheting down investments there, ratcheting up investments on the people that are telling me that this is, for lack of a better word, a military stalemate.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker questions the reduction of investments in Afghanistan amidst military challenges.

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