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Kirsten Gillibrand: “You’re asking for unlimited money for bombs when people can’t feed their families, and I don’t know how this…”

On the recordJuly 22, 2026
You’re asking for unlimited money for bombs when people can’t feed their families, and I don’t know how this administration intends to defend those decisions to the American people.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

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Questioning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about defense budget.

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