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(40,366 posts) Fri May 17, 2019, 08:29 AM May 2019

Rpt: Trump administration gives $62 million earmarked for struggling farmers to corrupt Brazilian br

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/the-senate-will-not-vote-on-any-election-security-bills-gop-senator-says/

President Trump has promised billions in relief to farmers hit by his trade war. But a new report shows a large chunk of that money went to a foreign company run by a pair of brothers who have admitted to bribing politicians in the past. Rep. Rosa DeLauro joins Lawrence O’Donnell to talk about her bill to stop that relief money from going to foreign companies.