Haley Stevens: “the bilateral assistance account has $4 billion in it. The Economic Support Fund has $12 billion in it. I am talking…”

“the bilateral assistance account has $4 billion in it. The Economic Support Fund has $12 billion in it. I am talking about in the fiscal year we are in right now. There is no shown need for additional moneys to assist the State Department. The State Department has an enormous amount of funds set aside for such cases. It has an international disaster and famine assistance account, the emergency refugees and migration assistance account. We have no reports at all that the administration and all of the people involved in all of these activities have run out of money. Even if they did, if they are close to that, the foreign assistance bill will be before us in September that deals with these various sums. The Stabenow amendment causes the bill to violate its 302(b) allocation by providing $200 million, if the emergency designation is not removed. This is a rule XVI problem. This is not authorized. There are specific accounts already authorized, as I have said. There is existing for this fiscal year alone $6 billion involved in the area which could provide assistance. I raise a point of order that this violates rule XVI.”