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J. D. Vance: “Marco Rubio, who's the Secretary of State, he's a very good…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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Podcast Conversation with Vice President J.D. Vance at Kid Rock's Nashville Restaurant

Published | Video Starts at 29:00

So there's a middleman. They subcontract it out. Somebody. There's three or four middlemen. And what, you know, Marco Rubio, who's the Secretary of State, he's a very good friend. What he told me is that his best estimate after he had his team look at it, is that 88 cents of every dollar was actually being collected by middlemen. No. So every dollar we were spending humanitarian assistance. 12 cents. Was actually making it to people who needed it. That's crazy. So there's a lot of waste, man. (29:00–29:12)

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