Gregory Meeks: “this rescissions package is disastrous. It cuts $8 billion in lifesaving and critical U.S. foreign assistance, including…”

“this rescissions package is disastrous. It cuts $8 billion in lifesaving and critical U.S. foreign assistance, including food assistance, access to clean water, and lifesaving medicine. Let's stop pretending that this is about fiscal responsibility. This package is not about saving money. It is about selling a con yet again to the American people. The President claimed the United States was wastefully sending condoms to Gaza. The fact is that they were sending them to Mozambique to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS. The President claimed that there was a wasteful $21 million grant to India. The fact is the grant never existed. It goes on from there. The President claimed that there was a national emergency in Brazil to justify slapping a 50 percent tariff on a country where the U.S. has run a trade surplus for over a decade. There is no emergency. He shouted about the Epstein files, and now his administration is saying there are no such files. This all, once again, is to serve as a con to the American people. Let's be clear about what the Republicans are voting to defund today: programs that help educate women and girls, programs that fight deadly diseases. Food, clean water, humanitarian relief for the world's most vulnerable--are we really going to take these things away from the most vulnerable with it? America's credibility and global leadership must not yield to this con. Let's get to the real waste.…”