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Brian Schatz: “$83 million for the Democracy Fund [is being cut].”

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 26:05

Hit $100 million for the transition initiatives and the complex crisis fund. This is flexible funding in contingency accounts that didn't expire and the administration can program in any way they want. $83 million for the Democracy Fund [is being cut]. $83 million. Promoting democratic values is directly in our interest and supporting resistance to dictatorship. Resistance to dictators. We're cutting resistance to dictators. Good for us. Make America great again. (26:05–26:09)

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