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Claire McCaskill: “We do not have any real indicators that the money we are spending down there on these programs is working”

On the recordJuly 8, 2014
We do not have any real indicators that the money we are spending down there on these programs is working
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

McCaskill questions the effectiveness of spending on programs in Central America.

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