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On the recordApril 13, 2011
if the United States cuts back on some of our development efforts and our aid in Africa, we will leave a vacuum of the particularly dangerous sort that other nations or other entities might fill
Said by
Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Lee warns against reducing U.S. aid in Africa, fearing it may benefit competitors like China.

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