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Cory Booker: I am unable to understand how U.S. leadership is strengthened by the President skipping the Summit of the Americas or…

On the recordJanuary 2, 2018
I am unable to understand how U.S. leadership is strengthened by the President skipping the Summit of the Americas or when the administration's fiscal year 2019 budget request proposes a staggering 42-percent cut--42-percent cut--for Latin America.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Condemnation of budget cuts to Latin America and absence from important summits.

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