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Jim Risch: “Hungry people cannot eat transportation costs. It is time to end this brand of corporate welfare.”

On the recordJuly 19, 2022
Hungry people cannot eat transportation costs. It is time to end this brand of corporate welfare.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch criticizes U.S. cargo preference for food aid as wasteful and harmful to those in need.

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