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Thomas Black: Defense spending can’t be hostage to the Iran standoff

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The political drama resulting from Democrats’ landslide midterm victory will start in early December with budget talks, especially those focused on defense spending. The plot is as tangled as a daytime soap opera. Legislators have already taken a stab at…

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