Hillary Clinton touted her plan to ramp up federal funding for Alzheimer’s research Monday at a town hall event in Iowa, vowing to divert billions from the defense budget to an effort to combat the disease.
“I’m sure I could find $2 billion a year in the Pentagon to put that money toward dealing with Alzheimer’s,” Clinton said during a wide-ranging speech in Davenport.
The Democratic front-runner then denied she would ever put U.S. troops on the ground in the fight against the Islamic State.
“We must not put American combat troops back into Iraq or into Syria,” she said. “I think that would be a grave mistaken and I will not —will not — approve of that.”
Clinton has largely supported the Obama administration’s Middle Eastern foreign policy, which excludes the possibility of putting boots on the ground in the growing swaths of territory controlled by Islamic State militants.
