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Brian Schatz: “$900 million in cuts from global health programs, including…”

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 03:31

The things that you care about are being cut in here and they don't want to specify it. And that brings me to what is definitely in this package. $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 … (03:31–03:40)

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Asserts that the rescission package includes $900 million in cuts from global health programs.

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