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From the Daily Caller: CNN anchor Pamela Brown questioned Democratic California Rep. Ted Lieu on Wednesday about American taxpayer funds going toward questionable initiatives abroad.
Brown said on “CNN Newsroom” that her network confirmed that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has cut “gender-affirming health care in Guatemala, teaching people in Kazakhstan to fight back against internet trolls, voluntary male circumcisions in Mozambique, creating work opportunities for young LGBTQI+ people in Serbia.” She asked Lieu if he supports American taxpayers funding these programs, but he did not offer a direct response.
“Are these things that you think taxpayer money from the U.S., U.S. taxpayer money, should be spent on? And how do you think taxpayers knew their money was going to these causes?” Brown asked.
Dodging the question, Lieu said, “So, happy to have a discussion on the funding of [U.S. Agency for International Development] USAID and what some of these programs are going to, but what the administration cannot do is randomly freeze the funding to all these programs that Congress has already appropriated. That’s why we have an entire appropriations process.”
Then, he bizarrely claimed, “And it’s also simply wrong that they’re making these cuts to somehow help Americans. They’re making these cuts to give billions of dollars of tax breaks to billionaires.”
Brown pushed back, arguing that Republicans do have a point about some of the wasteful spending that has been exposed.
However, Lieu again insisted, “Oh, the impact is it’s gonna give big tax breaks to billionaires. That’s exactly what the Republican budget does.”
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