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Chris Murphy: “A lot of people would suggest that that is essentially the policy that we have tried so far, that we have put in almost…”

On the recordSeptember 19, 2016
A lot of people would suggest that that is essentially the policy that we have tried so far, that we have put in almost $2 billion worth of aid, we have attached conditions on it.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Murphy critiques the effectiveness of conditional aid in South Sudan amidst ongoing crisis.

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