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Brian Schatz: “Our contributions to and participation in organizations like…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Published | Video Starts at 23:43

And if the program was named in such a way that it mentioned, just use those words, it was out. Just totally preposterous. Our contributions to and participation in organizations like UNICEF is being cut. I mean, good luck explaining why you cut unicef, because I can't. Like, I'm pretty good at, like, imagining what my political competitors on the other side of the aisle would say, but why did you cut unicef? (23:43–23:52)

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