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Brian Schatz: “$4.6 billion in cuts to economic development assistance to…”

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

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Schatz Warns Against Rescinding Foreign Assistance Funding, Ceding Appropriations Authority

Published | Video Starts at 03:50

$900 million in cuts from global health programs, including PEPFAR, and efforts to combat diseases like malaria, TB and polio $1.3 billion in cuts to humanitarian assistance which save lives, provide food and shelter and water and support victims of sexual assault and $4.6 billion in cuts to economic development assistance to key partners, whether it's Jordan increasing, with increasing regional tension, the Philippines as it counters Chinese aggression, the Burmese opposition or Ukraine. And gone is a billion dollars in support for organizations like unicef. Everybody that was opposed to those things that were on that Fox, Chiron, everybody that found some of … (03:50–04:06)

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Asserts that the rescission package includes $4.6 billion in cuts to economic development assistance to key partners.

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