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Alan Grayson: My reading of the bill, Congressman Yoho, is that we're actually taking money from the Pakistani aid budget and putting…

On the recordMarch 24, 2014
My reading of the bill, Congressman Yoho, is that we're actually taking money from the Pakistani aid budget and putting it into the Ukraine aid budget instead, so rather than stealing from Peter to pay Paul, we're actually stealing from Paracha to pay Pavel.
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Alan Grayson
Florida

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Grayson critiques the funding shift from Pakistan to Ukraine aid as misallocation.

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