Senators blast 'insane' Trump plan for aid cuts, seek Venezuela planArchived Message
Posted by Riverbender on May 1, 2019, 7:01 am
So Trump wants to cut foreign aid by 25% and Senators from both sides of the aisle are quite unhappy about it. However isn't it time we put our Country first instead of supporting all of the world's other Countries? There is a lot of rhetoric about health care at the moment and it would seem to me to be a much better plan to cut foreign aid and use the savings on providing health care for our citizens. Don't forget that the Free Stuff Army includes foreign dictators and other assorted governments. Charity begins at home is a well known saying and in this case I think it is high time to rely on its message.
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican and Democratic U.S. senators blasted President Donald Trump's proposal for a 23 percent cut in the U.S. budget for foreign aid and diplomacy as "insane" and "short-sighted" on Tuesday, and said it would not pass.
"We're not going to approve this budget reduction. It's insane. It makes no sense," said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the State Department and foreign aid budget.
"I don't know who writes these things over in the White House, but they clearly don't understand the value of soft power," the Republican senator, a close Trump ally on many issues, told a subcommittee hearing on the foreign aid budget.
Graham also called the plan "short-sighted" and said the Appropriations panel would restore funding to previous levels, rather than enacting the 23 percent cut Trump proposed earlier this year." "The Senate subcommittee's top Democrat, Senator Patrick Leahy, also opposed the cuts, citing the importance of "soft power" like foreign aid to U.S. influence around the world."
on May 1, 2019, 7:01 am