PolitiFact | Chuck Hagel

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Chuck Hagel has served as defense secretary since 2013. From 1997 to 2009, he was a U.S. senator from Nebraska.

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Chuck Hagel
stated on March 2, 2014 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

"It isn't me cutting the budget. It's the Congress' decision on sequestration. So it isn't secretary of defense or the president doing this."

By Julie Kliegman • March 5, 2014

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