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Stuart Stevens, Ken Klippenstein & Rahna Epting

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

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The Rise of the Pentagon and the Cost of Contracting

The single biggest expense that we have well we are currently not at war and has never been shaved at all. So this money is going to private contractors, which you know if you talk to some of the older military brass they're kind of bitter about. It's very much like the discourse around policing here. The Pentagon seems very deaf debt distributing money out to companies in all these different key districts that Congress people probably aren't going to want to lose access to those jobs.

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