Key US senator pushes back against Trump's proposed aid cuts
Source: Associated Press
Justin Lynch, Associated Press
Updated 7:31 pm, Friday, April 14, 2017
BIDI BIDI CAMP, Uganda (AP) Face-to-face with victims of South Sudan's famine and civil war, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee strongly defended U.S. foreign aid on Friday despite President Donald Trump's proposed deep cuts in humanitarian assistance.
Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee visited the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis in northern Uganda, just across the border from South Sudan, in a pointed response to Trump's "America First" platform that would slash funds for diplomacy and foreign aid.
Without "U.S. leadership, these people would have no hope," Corker told The Associated Press in an interview. "I think Americans, if they saw what I see here, and I see in other places, would be glad that our country does what it does."
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds significant sway over the foreign budget, and the proposed cuts almost certainly would need Corker's approval.
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Warpy
(111,255 posts)you're definitely doing something very wrong.
They're not going to like what happens when all the other programs he doesn't like are gutted, either. What do you mean nobody's going to do anything about that foam and oil slick in the river adjacent to your expensive vacation mansion? No EPA? Who the hell did that stupid thing? Oh...
2naSalit
(86,600 posts)Warpy
(111,255 posts)because the contractors will have had to move on to more lucrative things.
They'll have to hire anybody they can get and use their campaign funds ilegally and at some point it will dawn on them that the EPA would have shut down the polluter, itself, and saved them a bundle and maybe a fine. Oops.