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02-09-2020, 05:28 PM #1
Exclusive: Trump proposes 21% cut in U.S. foreign aid in budget proposal - officials
Exclusive: Trump proposes 21% cut in U.S. foreign aid in budget proposal - officials
By Jeff Mason
Reuters
February 9, 2020, 2:47 PM EST
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Exclusive: Trump proposes 21% cut in U.S. foreign aid in budget proposal - officials
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By Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will propose cutting billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid in his fiscal 2021 budget while seeking an increase in funds to counter developing economic threats from China and Russia, senior administration officials told Reuters.
Trump, a Republican, sought in his budget proposal last year to slash foreign aid but faced steep resistance from Congress and did not prevail.
His latest budget, which will be released on Monday, is a blueprint for his spending proposals that is unlikely, again, to be passed, particularly in an election year.
Trump will seek to make a 21% cut in foreign aid in the proposal, which seeks $44.1 billion (34.21 billion pounds) in the upcoming fiscal year compared with $55.7 billion (43.21 billion pounds) enacted in fiscal year 2020, an administration official said.
Aid to Ukraine would remain at its 2020 levels under the new proposal, the official said. Trump was acquitted last week of impeachment charges that he withheld aid to Ukraine to spur Kiev to investigate political rival Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. vice president.
Administration officials told Reuters that Trump would request an increase in funding for the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to $700 million compared to $150 million the previous year.
The DFC was formed in large part to counter China's growing economic influence. It serves as a development bank that partners with the private sector to provide loans in developing countries. It also serves as an alternative financing option to what the United States sees as predatory practices from China.
U.S. officials want to counter the soft power China has wielded with such loans and help countries avoid what they consider Beijing's “debt trap” diplomacy in which countries give up control ports, roadways or other major assets when they fund infrastructure projects with Chinese loans that they cannot pay back.
"Every country knows the drawbacks of working with autocratic governments," said Adam Boehler, the DFC's chief executive, in an interview, listing poor infrastructure as one consequence developing countries faced. "There are very few countries in this world that wouldn't prefer the American private capital market...That's what we represent."
The increased budget funding would help counter economic threats and was in line with Congress's bipartisan wish the agency would have such resources, he said.
He said part of the agency's money would be oriented to driving 5G technology in developing countries.
The budget also proposes $1.1 billion for cybersecurity efforts by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL
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02-09-2020, 05:31 PM #2
GOOD!!!
No more money, no aid, no oatmeal.
No more nation building...rebuild America.
Now cut off funding the refugee resettlement agencies ... not one more taxpayer dime funding this!!!
Send the birth control 7-year implant and nothing more!ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM
DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL
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02-09-2020, 09:55 PM #3NO AMNESTY
Don't reward the criminal actions of millions of illegal aliens by giving them citizenship.
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