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Brian Schatz: “$125 million for the U.S. agency for International…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Schatz Details Trump Admin's Destruction Of USAID, Deadly Consequences As Senate Considers DOGE Cuts

Published | Video Starts at 25:11

They have pretty good authority to reprogram it, but they don't want to reprogram it to something that they consider important. They want to shred the enterprise. $125 million for the U.S. agency for International Development operating expenses [is being cut]. Now this administration is illegally dismantling USAID and functionally merging it under the State Department. Here's the problem with this $125 million. And yes, it's admin expenses. (25:11–25:18)

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