10/03/2017
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"These across-the-board cuts have had significant negative implications for readiness, operational capacity, and our military personnel and their families."
"trying to assist in challenging circumstances in this is not an easy balance to strike."
"I have been really stunned by the reducing budgets for CARSI, the Central America Regional Security Initiative."
"If nothing is done to eliminate sequestration in fiscal year 2016 and beyond, the Department could still see up to 80 percent of the original BCA sequestration level reductions."