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. …
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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.
DEFUND! DEFUND! DEFUND!
WOOOHOOOO President Trump! Thank you, sir.
We agree. No foreign aid. To any country. No exceptions.
It’s just a matter of principle.
Have we got that right?
Simple Return on Investment calculations for a good businessman.
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.
Good point.
Terrific!
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.
Bump!
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