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Also, national defense, not the military is the number one priority. Usually they are tightly related but not always. Mattis, Kelly, that crew fought - tooth and nail- against using military forces at the border- arguing that troops should only be used to defend other countries' borders. Their number one priority was to defend the traditional role of the military. Trump's priority was national defense. Thus, if we need to divert funds from the military to defend the country, we should do that.
