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Lindsey Graham: “Threat-based budgeting is the way to go, you're dead right.”

On the recordJune 12, 2017
Threat-based budgeting is the way to go, you're dead right.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Graham advocates for a budgeting approach focused on threats rather than just financial allocations.

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