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Tim Kaine: “This would feed at least 27,000 acutely malnourished…”

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

Published | Video Starts at 04:27

If you've been on notice of it for two months and you've made the decision to keep the warehouse locked and allow this food to be destroyed rather than. Again, I think the article says This would feed at least 27,000 acutely malnourished children for a month. I mean, so is this incompetence or cruelty or both? I'd have to look into what the facts of the matter were. (04:27–04:36)

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Reasserts that the food could feed 27,000 malnourished children for a month.

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