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Bernie Sanders: “It's less than 1% of our budget.”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Vermont Congressional Delegation Telephone Town Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 1:37:30

China, Russia will be there in five minutes filling that vacuum. So this is not only the moral and right thing to do. As the richest country on Earth, Peter indicated It's less than 1% of our budget. It is, from a national security point of view, the right thing to do. You want to have people around this world respect us and like us? We have to maintain usaid. (1:37:30–1:37:34)

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Asserts that USAID funding constitutes less than 1% of the U.S. budget.

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