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On the recordJuly 31, 2013
If you have to take these $52-billion cuts every year going outward, no flexibility in the world is really going to fundamentally change the dire scenarios.
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Martin Smith
Democratic · Washington

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Smith warns that ongoing cuts will severely impact defense capabilities.

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