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Jim Risch: “I mean, if they will not make the commitment before they get the money, how in the world can you possibly think they…”

On the recordJanuary 18, 2021
I mean, if they will not make the commitment before they get the money, how in the world can you possibly think they will make the commitment after they get the money?
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Risch questions the logic of funding without prior commitments from UNRWA.

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