Well, I certainly agree. We are not cutting AID to the bone. We are cutting out the fat in my amendments, and what we are doing is sending a signal. Seventy-four percent, the gentleman is a taxpayer and so am I, 74 percent of the American people in a recent poll did not want any foreign aid. So the American people and the taxpayers are against it. So we have to spend their money very judiciously and in my opinion AID wastes a heck of a lot of it.
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