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Tim Kaine: “The food stocks have been stuck inside four US Government…”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Senator Tim Kaine Questions Deputy Secretary on US Aid Food Incineration Controversy

Published | Video Starts at 00:32

Today. Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are moldering in warehouses around the world because of US Aid cuts and risk becoming unst. The food stocks have been stuck inside four US Government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs. A spokesperson for the State Department, which oversees usaid, said in response to detailed questions about the food stocks that it was working to ensure the uninterrupted continuation of aid programs and their transfer by July. (00:32–00:42)

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Asserts that food stocks have been stuck in warehouses due to the Trump administration's aid cuts.

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