We get together twice a week. Ma', am, I understand your experience in Djibouti. I lived there and I served there. And my experiences there are remarkably different than your testimony. And USAID is essentially paying tribute around the world like we did to the Barbary Pirates. And that's why they need to be completely defunded and rebuilt from the ground up. So Thomas Jefferson did not want to get us involved in foreign conflicts, but he did on purpose because he didn't want to pay tribute anymore. (00:35–00:45)
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Asserts that USAID's actions are akin to paying tribute, similar to historical payments to the Barbary Pirates.
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