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Ben Cardin: “We have 22 percent of the world's gross domestic product and yet we contribute 28.5 percent of the budget here.”

On the recordDecember 8, 2015
We have 22 percent of the world's gross domestic product and yet we contribute 28.5 percent of the budget here.
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Ben Cardin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Cardin highlights the disproportionate financial contribution of the U.S. to the UN budget.

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