9. what policy tool will be used first when interacting with a hostile country?
a. military force
b. securing an alliance
c. sanctions
d. diplomacy

D. Diplomacy come before setting grounds rules 

D the USA try's diplomacy before going to war

Well, the correct answer is to reduce federal spendingthis is because he had done a reconstruction of the system to improve it for the future of the united states, but it didn't reduce federal spending pretty much at all. the previous governments made federal spending a huge problem causing the promise to fail because it was pretty much an impossible  task.i hope this mark me as brainiest