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On the recordJune 25, 2025
There's plenty of nonsense masquerading as American aid that shouldn't receive another bit of taxpayer funding. But the administration's attempt to root it out has been unnecessarily chaotic. In critical corners of the globe, instead of creating efficiencies, you have created vacuums for adversaries like China to fill.
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Mitch McConnell
Republican · Kentucky

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Criticism of the Trump administration's proposed cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting funding.

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