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Brian Schatz: “The big chunks of this are Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and drc…”

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 09:01

Could we please take turns? Thank you. You're proposing to rescind $1.3 billion in addition to 1.5 billion in emergency funds that you said you won't spend for humanitarian assistance. The big chunks of this are Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and drc, and those are roughly equal amounts that we're currently spending. Are you planning on distributing the reductions equally among those four baskets? Do you have an idea of which of these humanitarian crises are going to get less funding, or do you consider that your prerogative to decide after we enact this rescissions package? (09:01–09:11)

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Asserts that Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, and DRC are receiving roughly equal amounts of humanitarian assistance.

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