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McCain Releases Proposal To Boost Defense Budget By $430 Billion

Published: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 - 2:36pm
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U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona wants the country’s defense budget to grow by $430 billion over the next five years.

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee has released a proposal called “Restoring American Power,” which outlines the additional spending.

With me to talk about this is Austin Yamada, director of the Defense and Security Research Institute at the University of Arizona. Yamada also spent more than a decade working in the Pentagon.

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