If you include the supplemental funding that was provided in 2023, to address Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, the fiscal year 2024 request would actually be a 15 percent cut over the overall expenditures.
Coons discusses the budget request in light of ongoing global challenges.
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Since then, our confidence and our view, at least mine, and I think, having conversations with Senator Shaheen, have been disappointed.
I have been engaged in these issues a long time and gravely concerned to continue to hear about the steady loss of freedom around the world.
We need to provide more support for personnel, for operations, for outreach to support the Human Rights Defenders Fund.
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