The treatment of our Veterans, especially sick ones has been shameful. If nothing else, that part of the budget needs to be passed. That should be bi-partisan.
And it would be nice to see McCain formulate a well thought out response to Rand Paul’s concerns but instead we are left with “anyone who disagrees is directly working for Putin.”
acid attacks originate out of that part of the world and London is full of South Asian Muslim immigrants… Anyways I’m sure you can’t put two and two together
Cutting ‘soft power’ (ie/eg, State) is short-sighted and strategically foolish, as Lindsey Graham and others recognize:
"If the Trump administration proposes a budget that increases defense spending while drastically cutting funding for the State Department and foreign assistance, Congress will reject it and ensure that American soft power continues to be a national security priority, according to Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Senate appropriations state and foreign operations subcommittee.
“It’s dead on arrival, it’s not going to happen, it would be a disaster,” Graham said Tuesday. “This budget destroys soft power, it puts our diplomats at risk and it’s going nowhere.”
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“When I hear if we cut foreign aid we can balance the budget, it’s just a complete lie,” said Graham, pointing to the relatively small size of the international affairs budget. “Foreign assistance is an insurance policy. Investing over there, even though we have needs here, makes us safer.”