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Schatz Warns Against Rescinding Foreign Assistance Funding, Ceding Appropriations Authority

Published June 26, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:04

So now that it's Marco Rubio's State Department and Marco Rubio's USAID agency, and now that it is Donald Trump's White House, none of these things are happening. This is a rescission of Trump's CR in the current federal fiscal year. And so if you have a problem with any of those programs, let Lindsey and I write a bill that prohibits the use of funds for any of those seemingly improper uses of funds. (01:04–01:12)

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Asserts that the rescission package pertains to Trump's Continuing Resolution in the current fiscal year.

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