I JUST voted to pass this year's defense bill, which included:
💵 a well-deserved pay raise for those who serve.
🎓 $100 MILLION for research activities at HBCUs.
🤝 investments in our alliances and partnerships.
🚨 FIVE of my own amendments.
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Military families who lost a loved one in an operational or training accident deserve transparency.
That's why I dedicated two of my amendments to holding the accountable for safety improvements to prevent future fatal accidents.
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Democracies around the world are facing challenges we haven’t seen for generations.
I included an amendment to improve partner military operations, so we can form stronger alliances and keep American and allied personnel safe overseas.
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Advancing our democratic values makes us more secure.
My last two amendments would expose human rights violations committed by Philippines police, military, and paramilitary forces & condition assistance to the Philippines National Police on respect for fundamental human rights.
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By the way, how about the police brutality in the US before we talk about the Philippines? Thanks!
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Instead of just whinning all over again about the taxpayers dollars.We should abrogate the Mutual Defense Treaty to burden away the Philippine taxpayers in allowing US personnel additional expenses in using 5 philippine military camps.The worst deal that Filipinos could have.
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😂😂😂 yuh, use that money in your own country, so that you can focus on drug problem, mass shootings, asian/black killings in your country. We want trade not aid, and Russia and China is willing to cooperate with us 🤷
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I cant believe american taxpayer paying this please mam use your country tax to your own country and not minggle Philippines politics you are off to your boarder duty we dont need American politics in our country.
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Thank you. If there's more I would ask for, please STOP ALL AID to the Philippines, and work on lowering taxes for Americans.
The Philippines must learn to stop relying on foreign aid, and for the Filipino People to stop tolerating a government that does.
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