When we are looking at $300 million on a good day in democracy assistance and then we are handing out potentially 10 times that amount of money in an account that has very little oversight from the United States Congress, it tells these countries what we think is most important.
On the recordMay 9, 2016
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Murphy criticizes the imbalance in funding priorities between democracy assistance and military aid.
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