Topics in the News: Foreign Aid
Joe Biden on War & Peace
: Mar 7, 2024
Build a pier off Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid
The United States have been leading international efforts to get more humanitarian assistance to Gaza. Tonight, I'm directing the US military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the coast of Gaza that can
receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelters. No US boots will be on the ground. A temporary pier will enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting in Gaza every day. And Israel must do its
part. Israel must allow more aid into Gaza and ensure humanitarian workers aren't caught in the crossfire. They're announcing they're going to have a crossing in Northern Gaza. To the leadership of Israel, I say this, humanitarian assistance cannot
be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip. Protecting and saving innocent lives has to be a priority. As we look to the future, the only real solution to the situation is a two-state solution over time.
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Source: 2024 State of the Union address
Cornel West on Foreign Policy
: Aug 7, 2023
Withdraw foreign aid to Egypt, Israel; more humanitarian aid
Withdrawing foreign aid to Egypt, Israel, and any other countries violating the human rights of subjugated peoples. Increasing humanitarian aid to poor and vulnerable peoples around the world.
Enabling international peace by highlighting ecological sustainability, abolishing nuclear weapons, and promoting diplomatic processes.
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Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website CornelWest24.org
Marianne Williamson on Homeland Security
: Jun 6, 2023
Fix budget to keep, maintain and create sustainable peace
This department will focus on reallocating existing budgets in more appropriate and coordinated ways to keep, maintain and create sustainable peace. The key funding question for the U.S. Department of Peace is simply a matter of
changing where the money goes, with a renewed focus on peace-building, humanitarian aid, and development as a key to our national security.
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Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website Marianne2024.com
Nikki Haley on Foreign Policy
: May 7, 2023
Slash foreign aid to countries that don't have our back
From her first day as UN ambassador, Nikki worked to clean up the corrupt and politically-biased UN. She negotiated $285 million in cuts from the UN budget and reached agreements to restructure the UN, including rightsizing
UN peacekeeping missions to make them more effective and accountable. She put our enemies on notice and started a process to slash U.S. foreign aid to countries that refused to have America's back.
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Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website NikkiHaley.com
Nikki Haley on Foreign Policy
: Mar 2, 2023
We will stop giving money to countries that hate America
We give billions of dollars every year to countries that undermine America every day. They stab us in the back and then they turn around and have their hand out wanting money. Some of them even support terrorists. To this day, we are giving foreign aid
to Pakistan, Iraq, the Palestinians, and even Communist Cuba and China. We need to stop trying to buy friends. All we are doing is paying off our enemies. When I'm president, we will stop giving money to countries that hate America.
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Source: Speech at the 2023 CPAC Conference in Maryland
Donald Trump on Immigration
: Jun 23, 2019
Didn't start family separation but ended it
On family separation at the border: This has been happening long before I got there. What we've done is ended separation. Under President Obama you had separation. I was the one that ended it. We're doing a fantastic job under the circumstances.
The Democrats are holding up the humanitarian aid. If the Democrats would change the asylum laws and the loopholes, which they refuse to do because they think it's good politics, everything would be solved immediately. But they refuse to do it.
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Source: NBC News Meet the Press 2019 interview
Bernie Sanders on Foreign Policy
: Sep 21, 2017
Development aid isn't charity; it avoids military later
Development aid is not charity, it advances our national security. It's worth noting that the U.S. military is a stalwart supporter of non-defense diplomacy and development aid. Starving diplomacy and aid now will result in greater defense needs later
on. US foreign aid should be accompanied by stronger emphasis on helping people gain their political and civil rights to hold oppressive governments accountable to the people.
Ultimately, governments that are accountable to the needs of their people will make more dependable partners.
Here is the bottom line: In my view, the United States must seek partnerships not just between governments, but between peoples.
A sensible and effective foreign policy recognizes that our safety and welfare is bound up with the safety and welfare of others around the world.
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Source: Westminster College speech in Where We Go From Here, p. 109
Jill Stein on Foreign Policy
: Dec 26, 2015
End foreign aid to countries with human rights abuses
While she agrees with [Democratic progressive challenger Senator Bernie] Sanders on many issues, she points out in the interview a couple of important differences.
She appears to be passionately against the continued funding of countries with human rights abuses that she believes are in violation of International Law such as: Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Although Sanders does not emphasize his position on this issue while on the campaign trail, she is correct that he definitely does support their continued funding.
Some of his supporters may not realize that at this point, partly because it does not seem to be a major focus of his campaign. The two candidates do differ on foreign policy and foreign aid.
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Source: Green Party press release on interview in Denton Times Life
Donald Trump on Foreign Policy
: Sep 1, 2015
Stop sending aid to countries that hate us
Devex compiled a list of quotes from Trump that provide a window into his view on foreign aid:- "It is necessary that we invest in our infrastructure, and stop sending aid to countries that hate us--and nobody can do that better than me."--
Presidential announcement
- "Pakistan's a real problem because they have nuclear weapons. I would say we don't give them any money unless they get rid of their nuclear weapons."--
Fox News, May 9, 2011
- "The World Bank is tying poverty to climate change--and we wonder why international organizations are ineffective." --@realDonaldTrump
Twitter, Nov. 19, 2012
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Source: Devex global development blog, "Trump on foreign aid"
Jill Stein on Foreign Policy
: Jul 6, 2015
China provides less heavy-handed foreign aid than does US
OnTheIssues: How would you maintain relations with China and human rights vs. debt?Stein: We should deal with China like a member of global community--stop isolating and intimidating China--that is not gonna work.
OnTheIssues: What about the latest
standoff in the South China Sea?
Stein: It is wrongheaded for us to deal with territorial rights on the borders of China--what I mean by dealing with China as a member of global community is not to isolate them. On US debt, they finance all sorts of
3rd-world countries in a way that is far less heavy-handed than the US--we need to compete with China on that. We do need to stand up on human rights--but we need to do that inside the US or it does not pass the laugh test. Like in our jails and
in our schools and in our courts and the way that we treat immigrants--we have created them and then we criminalize them. We need to get our own house in order first--stand up for human rights in China, yes, but also in Israel and Saudi Arabia too.
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Source: Phone interview on 2016 presidential race by OnTheIssues.org
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