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Derrick Van Orden: “USAID needs to be completely defunded and rebuilt from the…”

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

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Rep. Derrick Van Orden Questions Witnesses on U.S. Military Readiness in HASC Full Committee Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 00:34

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 USAID needs 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. (00:34–00:45)

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