Common Ground: Sounding the Alarm On Defensive Spending Levels

The Bret Baier Podcast

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Earlier this week, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told lawmakers why a $60 billion supplemental funding request to support Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan is an essential U.S. investment -- but with divided support on Ukraine aid, will it survive? And where do Democrats and Republicans stand on this issue and America's defense spending as a whole? Bret is joined by Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) to discuss how passing this supplemental would be a step toward prioritizing our nation's defense, why there should be nothing bipartisan about ensuring our nation is secure, and the ways this money would benefit the U.S. directly as opposed to just our allies. Follow Bret on Twitter: @BretBaier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.5	Fox News Podcasts presents the Brett Bear Podcasts, Common Ground.
0:41.8	There are a number of senators on the Republican side that continue to want to find common ground.
0:46.9	We emphasize the conflict and controversy cells, and I think it's a problem because most Americans look at Washington and see something that's broken.
0:53.4	Why don't we look for ways that we celebrate what this country is capable of doing?
0:57.8	It's amazing what you can do when you get off social media and you start talking, communicating with one another because there is common ground.
1:04.7	With Fox News chief political anchor Brett Baer.
1:09.5	Every year, he puts forward defense department cuts.
1:14.6	We linked our request to our strategy, and again, I think we had to make some tough choices.
1:21.6	None of you believe going below 3% of GDP is good for the Department of Defense.
1:25.6	I know that. I know it's hard. The president
1:29.0	clearly thinks it is. He cuts the budget every year. It's got to make your job really tough.
1:34.8	Welcome back to special report. It's time now for our common ground segment to the senators on that
1:40.2	committee. Joining us tonight, two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican. You just heard there, Dan Sullivan of Alaska.
1:48.9	Senators, thanks for being here. Great to be with you being out.
1:50.9	Senator Sullivan, the reason we played that is because you're talking there about the supplemental.
1:55.2	And you said in that questioning that it should be called the Fighting Authoritarian Aggression Supplement
2:00.3	or the Defense Industrial Base Enhancement Act
2:03.3	or something besides Ukraine aid because you're fearful
2:07.4	that it's going to run into trouble.
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