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Derrick Van Orden: “FEMA personnel working on the southern border are being paid…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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'Not Doing Your Job': Derrick Van Orden Torches Criswell Over Wasting Taxpayer Dollars To Her Face

Published | Video Starts at 01:06

Is that out of the $715 million provided for humanitarian assistance? Did you count the salaries of these people? The majority of the people that we have sent to support the southern border have been … FEMA personnel working on the southern border are being paid by taxpayers dollars. … How many of these people were working on the southern border immediately following the fires in Maui? Immediately following what, sir? I didn't hear you. (01:06–01:09)

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Asserts that taxpayer money is used to pay FEMA personnel at the southern border.

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