Royce Bill Cuts State Department Budget by $2.4 Billion -
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) introduced legislation Tuesday that would slash the State Department's budget by $2.4 billion – a 9 percent cut over this year's levels...
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“If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition ultimately. So I think it’s a cost benefit ratio. The more that we put into the State Department’s diplomacy, hopefully the less we have to put into a military budget as we deal with the outcome of an apparent American withdrawal from the international scene.” - General James Mattis