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Lindsey Graham: “The administration's proposal to slash approximately 30 percent from the State Department and foreign assistance budget…”

On the recordJune 12, 2017
The administration's proposal to slash approximately 30 percent from the State Department and foreign assistance budget signals an American retreat, leaving a vacuum and making us far less safe.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Graham criticizes budget cuts to the State Department as harmful to U.S. security.

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