The 2.75percent cut to the defense portions of this bill will not come out of important items to protect our troops. I would never consider supporting any measure that threatened their safety. This is supposed to be an emergency funding bill. but there are billions of dollars of nonemergency items in the bloated defense portion of this bill that have nothing to do with protecting our troops and have no business in this supplementalitems that can be cut to pay for the real border security needs funded in both amendments. Some examples include the unrequested funding for V22 Ospreys and C17s and the clearly nonemergency Army modularity program. Our spending on our national security is also completely imbalanced. with almost all resources going to the Department of Defense and very little to other important national security priorities such as border security and the U.S. Coast Guard. The Gregg amendment brings back some balance to our spending.
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