Mac Thornberry’s Retirement Leaves the Defense Industry With One Less Close Friend
The Panhandle congressman has been an unwavering hawk and a champion for bigger war budgets.
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Justin Miller covers politics and state government for the Texas Observer. He previously worked for The American Prospect magazine in Washington, D.C., and has also written for The Intercept, The New Republic and In These Times. Originally from the Twin Cities, he received a journalism degree from the University of Minnesota.
The Panhandle congressman has been an unwavering hawk and a champion for bigger war budgets.
The senior senator from Texas has mastered the art of political subservience, making him very powerful—and perhaps vulnerable.
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