Thread: Top International Red Cross official says he’s ‘not worried’ of Trump cut to funding

Top International Red Cross official says he’s ‘not worried’ of Trump cut to funding

By Guy Taylor and Laura Kelly - The Washington Times - Thursday, February 1, 2018

A top official at the International Committee of the Red Cross says he’s confident Washington will remain the organization’s top donor despite President Trump’s promise to dramatically cut America’s USAID and State Department budgets.

“I’m not worried,” ICRC Director of Operations Dominik Stillhart told The Washington Times in an exclusive interview Thursday, asserting that there is “very strong bipartisan support” in Washington for his organization and “no reason to think this is going to change any time soon.”

Mr. Stillhart added that he’s “pretty confident” the Trump administration will deliver on $400 million in annual funding to the ICRC, the leading international organization for humanitarian assistance for people in nearly every conflict zone around the world.

Mr. Stillhart took care during a wide-ranging interview with The Times not to criticize the Trump administration, including on the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

President Trump made international headlines during his first State of the Union speech Tuesday night by announcing he’d signed an executive order to keep long-controversial prison for suspected terrorists open at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

The president called for the prison, which has a current population of less than 50 prisoners — down from a high of nearly 800 a decade ago — to be filled with new suspects captured by U.S. military forces and intelligence services around the world.

Top International Red Cross official says he's 'not worried' of Trump cut to funding

Even if you're worried ,Donald Trump look after US ,he does not care what is happening in those shitole ,you know where you always putting your nose. You are a fool man.Why in the first place Red Cross had ever help.

No money, no aid, no oatmeal.

Resolve your conflicts...we are not the ATM machine or dumping ground for the world.

And put them all on birth control...no more mouths to feed!

70 years of Palestine "refugees" who continue to breed in filth! Bull crap! No more money!

$400 MILLION THAT SHOULD BE SPENT ON THE WALL AND OUR INFRASTRUCTURE!