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Brian Schatz: “You proposed to rescind $500 million from the USAID global…”

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 06:08

Thank you very much. Thank you. Chair. Vice Chair. Director, good to meet you. Thank you for being here. I'm going to try to get some clarity on numbers in the package You proposed to rescind $500 million from the USAID global health programs that Secretary Rubio is trying to move to the State Department. That account funds a wide range of bipartisan priorities. And so I just kind of want to walk them with you and you can tell me the extent of the cuts. (06:08–06:17)

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Asserts that there is a proposal to rescind $500 million from USAID global health programs.

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