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Ted Cruz: “The Minnesota taxpayers are the number one funder of Al…”

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So they're paying them. They put them on programs that are entirely fraudulent. They're taking that money, sending it back to Somalia. That money, by the way, The Minnesota taxpayers are the number one funder of Al Shabaab, the terrorist Islamist group in Somalia. It has received hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen money from the Minnesota taxpayers. And the Democrats are doing this deliberately. And I got to say, it was amazing at this hearing. (19:38–19:48)

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Asserts that Minnesota taxpayers are the primary funders of Al Shabaab through stolen welfare funds.

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