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Dearlove says UK must cut welfare spending to fund defense, requiring economic sacrifices.
“And the most important way in The UK to do this is to cut the welfare budget and to spend it on defense. And we have to make sacrifices.”
Dearlove argues security is government's first responsibility and UK must cut welfare to reach 5% defense spending.
“That's too little, too late. They need to up to 5%, and all they have to do is to cut the welfare budget.”
Vance frames the November election as a choice between jobs and welfare checks.
“And we've got a choice in November. Do we want a party that provides good jobs or a party that provides a lot of welfare checks?”
Vance says Paul LePage doubled the number of fraud investigators in Maine while cracking down on welfare abuse.
“We saw that Paul LePage crackdown on the epidemic of welfare fraud and abuse happening in cities like Lewiston. He doubled the number of investigators he had in the state going after fraud.”