Cheney: Forget Food Stamps and Highways. Spend More on Military.

Though the battle over infrastructure spending is occupying much of Washington this week, former Vice President Dick Cheney is urging lawmakers to forget about highways – and beef up the Pentagon’s budget instead. The federal Highway Trust Fund is on the brink of going belly up unless Congress finds a last-minute solution. Yet Cheney, flanked by his wife, Lynne, and their daughter, Liz, said …

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