Derrick Van Orden: “My people back home are having difficulty filling up a gas…”

“You keep it. So I said, look, my people back home, and I represent more people than the entire country of Luxembourg, by the way. I said, My people back home are having difficulty filling up a gas tank and a grocery cart on the same day. And they're asking me, why are we sending hundreds of millions of dollars to a country we had never heard of until now? Essentially, everyone was saying, Chicken Kiev.” (16:52–16:58)

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