Sentences with phrase «cut foreign aid budget»

UKIP MP Douglas Carswell said: «The sort of people who have dinner parties in Notting Hill think there's something unseemly about wanting to cut the foreign aid budget.

So this is a terrible time for the US to be signaling that it's seeking to cut foreign aid budget that is already only 0.2 % of US national income, less than 1 % of the federal budget.

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President Donald Trump has released his «America First» budget proposal that revealed heavy cuts to foreign aid.

The proposed cut to the State Department's diplomatic corps and the foreign aid budget are particularly striking, and likely to include security contractors at diplomatic missions abroad after the GOP criticized Democrats for security at the U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans died in a 2012 attack.

Such a cut fits into Trump's «America first» worldview, but is alarming to lawmakers who see diplomacy and foreign aid as a small but crucial component of the federal budget, just more than 1 %.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that countries which persecute gay people will find their foreign aid budget cut.

He said any decision to make further cuts to the foreign aid budget would not require parliamentary approval.

At a time of possible budget cuts to foreign aid in the US, it is important to have independent evaluations that assess the likely impacts of foreign aid programs.

A spokesman for Rep. Kay Granger (R - Texas), who leads the House Appropriations subcommittee over foreign aid that recommended an 18 percent cut to USAID's budget, did not return a request for comment yesterday.

That is one reason US President Donald J. Trump, who has campaigned on putting the needs of Americans first, has proposed deep cuts to foreign aid in his 2018 budget.

But there are deep concerns that the Budget seeks more to partially restore what the Coalition has already cut in a bid to head off another «MediScare» election, worries about a failure to invest in rural and regional health and Indigenous health, and climate change, and dire warnings about further cuts to foreign aid and more punitive measures for welfare recipients.