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Trump administration to propose 'dramatic reductions' in foreign aid
Reuters ^ | Sat Mar 4, 2017 | 1:51pm EST | David Shepardson

Posted on 03/04/2017 4:32:47 PM PST by Olog-hai

The White House budget director confirmed Saturday that the Trump administration will propose “fairly dramatic reductions” in the U.S. foreign aid budget later this month.

Reuters and other news outlets reported earlier this week that the administration plans to propose to Congress cuts in the budgets for the U.S. State Department and Agency for International Development by about one third.

“We are going to propose to reduce foreign aid and we are going to propose to spend that money here,” White House Office of Management Budget director Mick Mulvaney told Fox News on Saturday, adding the proposed cuts would include “fairly dramatic reductions in foreign aid.”

Mulvaney said the cuts in foreign aid would help the administration fund a proposed $54 billion expansion of the U.S. military budget. …

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: foreignaid; mulvaney; trump
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To: Oldexpat
We need to continue the food aid but take tighter control over the distribution.

Nope. Because that aid will still end up in the stomachs of brutal dictators and their armies while the people starve to death.

All foreign aid is unconstitutional. It should be abolished.

21 posted on 03/04/2017 5:14:44 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (STOP THE TAPE!)
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To: Olog-hai

DEFUND! DEFUND! DEFUND!

WOOOHOOOO President Trump! Thank you, sir.


22 posted on 03/04/2017 5:21:35 PM PST by PGalt (HOORAY President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

We agree. No foreign aid. To any country. No exceptions.
It’s just a matter of principle.
Have we got that right?


23 posted on 03/04/2017 5:23:33 PM PST by Concentrate (ex-texan was right. And Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. ( Pizzagate, Podt)
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To: ptsal

Simple Return on Investment calculations for a good businessman.


24 posted on 03/04/2017 5:31:06 PM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Olog-hai; All

I never believed in foreign aid. You send a trillion dollars to a third world shithole,and the needy would never see another grain of rice.


25 posted on 03/04/2017 5:39:57 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Oldexpat

Good point.


26 posted on 03/04/2017 5:46:26 PM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Olog-hai

Terrific!


27 posted on 03/04/2017 5:48:00 PM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: Olog-hai

Does zero for the UN and zero for any country that supports terrorism or does not have a democratic government count as dramatic? I hope that’s where we’ll start.


28 posted on 03/04/2017 6:40:37 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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If you're a reader: The Road to Hell
29 posted on 03/04/2017 9:16:45 PM PST by pa_dweller (President Donald Trump, President Donald Trump. Because I know you like seeing it.)
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To: Olog-hai

Bump!


30 posted on 03/05/2017 12:50:03 PM PST by rdl6989
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