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On the recordJune 12, 2017
Cutting the U.S. foreign aid budget as the administration has proposed--a nearly one third reduction overall, with a 46 percent cut to development assistance, a 26 percent cut to global health programs, and a stunning 45 percent cut to life-saving humanitarian assistance--would shirk America's moral obligations and be self-defeating to its strategic interests.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham warns that proposed cuts to foreign aid undermine U.S. moral and strategic interests.

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