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On the recordApril 11, 2018
If you take away money, you can't do some of the things that--you take away things from the--money from the defense budget, you can't do some of those things that you were trying to do, like add pilots or repair ships or those other sort of things.
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Mac Thornberry
Republican · Texas

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Thornberry emphasizes the impact of budget cuts on military capabilities.

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