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Jason Smith: “We say that we want to fight China, yet we are going to fund China.”

On the recordApril 18, 2023
We say that we want to fight China, yet we are going to fund China.
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Jason Smith
Republican · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Criticism of funding policies that contradict stated goals regarding China.

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