Mike Lawler Asks Expert How Taxpayer Money Gets Spent At Counterterrorism Bureau

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During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Mike Lawler asked Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the Bureau of Counterterrorism Gregory LoGerfo about money allocation at the agency.

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00:00The gentleman's time has expired. Mr. LaGerfa, I just want to follow up on something. How does

00:04the Bureau distinguish between hard security initiatives and root causes programs when

00:11deciding where to allocate taxpayer resources? Mr. Chairman, thank you for that question.

00:18It's a great question. We have an annual strategic exercise in September where we

00:24look at the administration's priorities and we look at the resources that have been allocated

00:30by Congress and we make sure that the resources and the staffing that we have are in concert with

00:38the administration's priorities. And that's something that we do every year. It's yielded

00:45very good results and that will certainly continue as we go forward. Great. Thank you.

00:54I now want to recognize my colleague.

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