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The Mouth

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12. Foreign aid - who the hell put this in there?

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Tue Dec 22, 2020, 12:42 PM

Dec 2020

$500 million "for the Israeli Cooperative Programs." It also includes funding for other countries, including $500 million for Jordanian defense spending and $33 million for Venezuela's democracy programs.

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