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Gabbard, who served in the Hawaii National Guard and then joined an Army reserve unit that was deployed to Iraq, has said that her skepticism of intervention was rooted in her experience from serving in a war that she saw as unnecessary and costly.

These individually managed funds are divided by local authority, making it more costly, because each fund is paying its own management and administration fees.

In a staff report, it said it would probably prove too costly for many developers and could significantly reduce the construction of housing, including units that are mandated to have rent affordable for low-income households, not merely rent-stabilized.

Some environmental groups worry nuclear projects are too costly and come with timelines that do not meet the urgency of the climate crisis.

But the desire to avoid costly wars is clearly a selective calculation.