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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 08:40 PM Apr 2017

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.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Key-US-senator-pushes-back-against-Trump-s-11074198.php

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Key US senator pushes back against Trump's proposed aid cuts (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2017 OP
When you're so flinty hearted and miserly that you piss off Republicans Warpy Apr 2017 #1
They'll send out contractors to clean it up at taxpayer expense. 2naSalit Apr 2017 #3
No EPA, no cleanup Warpy Apr 2017 #4
It will only bother most of them when it hits close to home. pangaia Apr 2017 #5
He's probably just fine with Trumps cuts to meals on wheels though n/t n2doc Apr 2017 #2
Touche... pangaia Apr 2017 #6

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
1. When you're so flinty hearted and miserly that you piss off Republicans
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 08:44 PM
Apr 2017

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...

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
4. No EPA, no cleanup
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 08:54 PM
Apr 2017

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.

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