President Donald Trump’s minerals deal with Ukraine is a way for Americans to get at least some repayment for the taxpayer dollars that have been “used to pay for someone else’s government to be run,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said while reacting to the agreement.

“This minerals deal is a way for the American people to get some form of, not return, but some kind of a repayment based on the taxpayer dollars that have been expended and used to pay for someone else’s government to be run, to pay for someone else’s infrastructure, even outside of all of the weapons system, while we still have communities here who have failing infrastructure, who have poisonous water,” Gabbard told Sirius XM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” Wednesday.

The United States and Ukraine announced the long-awaited agreement Wednesday, after months of pressure from Trump for Ukraine to repay the United States for billions of dollars in military and economic assistance. 

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