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On the recordMarch 24, 2015
if it were a real budget plan instead of a political document intended to provide rhetorical red meat to the base, would place our national security at risk by massively reducing nondefense discretionary funding.
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Nita Lowey
Democratic · New York

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Criticism of the Republican budget resolution's impact on national security and funding.

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