Dear ranking Chairman Graham and ranking member Schatz, this program is super important and would you please fund it in the next appropriation cycle. That's the private letter that we get. The public action is to rescind the money. $22 million for the African Development Foundation [is being cut]. The administration says The African Development Foundation's work is duplicative of of the State Department's work. But the kind of grants and technical support that the African Development foundation provides is not available through the State Department. (27:30–27:34)
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