The State Department leadership voiced support for President Trump’s proposed budget, which would impose deep cuts on spending for diplomacy and foreign aid, but critics vowed to fight to restore the funds in Congress. In a statement, the department said the president’s $37.6-billion request for it and for the U.S. Agency for International Development would support “a leaner, …
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American Jewish World Service (AJWS), the leading American Jewish human rights and development organization, strongly opposes President Trump’s proposed FY18 budget, which would harm the most vulnerable people in the world by slashing crucial aid and development programs and weakening institutions critical to upholding human rights worldwide.
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If a budget is a moral document, then the budget President Trump submitted to Congress last week is a testament to immorality of the highest order. The Jewish community’s response has been broadly critical. The American Jewish Committee, American Jewish World Service, B’nai B’rith International and the Religious Action Center are a few of the …
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The proposal would cut funding to the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 percent, the State Department by 29 percent and the Department of Labor by 21 percent. The document released Thursday was just an outline; the full budget – which will include information on taxes, spending on entitlements such as Social Security, economic projections and …
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Despite assurances from the Trump administration that US funding to Israel would be immune to proposed budget cuts, various Jewish groups are expressing their swift disapproval of the White House’s decision to drastically decrease funding for foreign aid. The nearly two month old administration has assured Israel that the $3.1 billion defense assistance allotted to Israel is a …
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