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Mark Pocan: “That 40 billion is more than we spent in total on USAID…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 51 with Dean Baker

Published | Video Starts at 29:56

But the $20 billion currency swap and then an additional 20 billion reduced price loan to Argentina. So it's a country with a right wing leader. Trump likes him, so he's done these deals. By the way, That 40 billion is more than we spent in total on USAID across the entire planet in doing assistance just with one country. 40 billion. But farmers of Wisconsin don't get the idea why, you know, they're hurting as we're bailing out Argentina. Then Argentina gets orders from China to do things that we were selling from Wisconsin agriculturally. (29:56–30:04)

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Asserts that the $40 billion to Argentina exceeds total USAID spending globally.

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