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Brian Schatz: “The total dollar amount of all the controversial programs…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 16:55

And I made this point in the Appropriations Committee. There were a bunch of controversial programs that precipitated this effort to cut usaid. Two points to be made. One, The total dollar amount of all the controversial programs was like in the 1 to 200 million dollar range. That's number one. Number two is all of those programs were discontinued. This is a budget that was enacted in March. This is Trump's budget. This is Trump's State Department. (16:55–17:03)

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Asserts that the controversial programs in question amounted to between 1 and 200 million dollars.

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