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On the recordFebruary 17, 2025
how will you even begin to think through the kinds of budgeting questions if we don't know what it is that we are defending in the first place?
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J.D. Vance
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Vance questioned Europe's defense budgeting without clarity on their values.

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