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Search results for "Army cuts training as service is short billions of dollars"

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Dick Cheney stated on September 24, 2014 in a broadcast of "Hannity" on Fox News:
"We have four combat-ready brigades out of 40 in the U.S. Army."
By Jon Greenberg• October 6, 2014
Joe Morrissey stated on February 02, 2011 in a floor speech.:
The military has spent $500 million enforcing the "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy regarding gays and lesbians in the military. 
By Jacob Geiger• February 7, 2011
Kamala Harris stated on March 08, 2019 in a tweet:
Says Trump administration is "raiding money" from military service member pensions to pay for the border wall.
By Chris Nichols• March 28, 2019
Victoria Jackson stated on July 15, 2011 in a column by Victoria Jackson:
"A clause hidden in the Obamacare bill, which is now law, gives Obama the right to form a private army."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• July 22, 2011
Jim Hightower stated on September 06, 2011 in an interview.:
Says Rick Perry and the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature "managed to slash the budget of the volunteer fire departments in our state by 75 percent in the last legislative session," reducing their abilities to fight recent wildfires.
By W. Gardner Selby• September 13, 2011
Randy Forbes stated on April 11, 2013 in a congressional hearing.:
The U.S. Army had a training program that put "evangelical Christians, Catholics and Mormons in the same category of religious extremism as we do al-Qaida."
By Nancy Madsen• May 3, 2013
Richard Ojeda stated on August 15, 2021 in a tweet:
The United States spent “2 trillion dollars to train and equip the Afghan military over the past 20 years. They fell in a week.”
By Zach DeLuca, Trenton Straight• September 21, 2021
Jeb Bush stated on November 18, 2015 in a speech at the Citadel:
For NATO exercises, "we don’t have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Brits are spotting us choppers."  
By Amy Sherman• November 25, 2015
Mitt Romney stated on February 04, 2012 in a speech in Las Vegas, Nev.:
"President Obama is shrinking our military."
By Louis Jacobson• February 8, 2012
Amy Kremer stated on May 17, 2011 in an interview on "The Colbert Report":
"We bring in enough tax revenue to service our debt, pay for Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, and then still have about $300 (billion) or $400 billion left over."
By Louis Jacobson• May 20, 2011
Mike Johnson stated on November 05, 2023 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
“Only in Washington can you cut funding, add a pay-for to a new spending measure, and they say it's terrible for the deficit.”
By Louis Jacobson• November 7, 2023
Betty McCollum stated on February 16, 2011 in press release, Rep. Betty McCollum:
Says the Army is spending $7 million to sponsor a NASCAR team.
By Martha M. Hamilton• March 3, 2011
Steve Brown stated on July 12, 2012 in a forum hosted by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
A proposed tax to fund transportation projects would spend $90,000 to take a single vehicle off the road during the morning and afternoon commute.
By Willoughby Mariano• July 24, 2012
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee stated on January 21, 2014 in a campaign commercial:
Says David Jolly’s former firm lobbied "for hundreds of millions (of dollars) for a dictator in Pakistan."
By Joshua Gillin• January 27, 2014
David Cicilline stated on August 28, 2012 in a TV debate:
"We will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year, fixing roads, building bridges, training police officers, and more, [and] cutting the same things in our own country."
By Tom Mooney• September 5, 2012
David Axelrod stated on September 27, 2011 in a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics:
Says Republicans want to cut education by 25 percent.
By Jake Berry• October 17, 2011
Joe Biden stated on August 23, 2020 in an interview with ABC News:
Says Donald Trump “proposes cutting a half a billion dollars of local police support.”
By Jon Greenberg• August 25, 2020
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on July 26, 2018 in an interview on the Daily Show:
"Just last year we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase, which they didn’t even ask for."
By Manuela Tobias• August 1, 2018
Nancy Pelosi stated on May 23, 2018 in a CNN town hall:
A recent spending bill had at least "$1.6 billion in there ... for schools to give them an opportunity to secure them."
By Louis Jacobson• May 24, 2018
Sean Hannity stated on September 22, 2009 in an interview with Sen. John McCain on Fox News Channel:
The Obama administration is "cutting back on defense"
By Louis Jacobson• September 25, 2009

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