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Tim Scott: “For us to have a strategic retreat would still cost the taxpayers another billion dollars.”

On the recordJuly 29, 2013
For us to have a strategic retreat would still cost the taxpayers another billion dollars.
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Scott warns that abandoning the project would incur additional costs for taxpayers.

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