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Tim Ryan: The cost of our involvement, the U.S. involvement, is $700 billion. That is a staggering amount to spend on a war you…

On the recordMarch 8, 2017
The cost of our involvement, the U.S. involvement, is $700 billion. That is a staggering amount to spend on a war you said yourself at the time we are not winning.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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Critiques the financial expenditure on the Afghanistan war amidst lack of success.

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