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Why Is foreign aid going to American farmers?
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Sen. Richard Blumenthal objected to the 90-day pause on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on the grounds that doing so would hurt American farmers.
Minority members of the committee were unwilling to "just say 'no' to wasteful foreign aid," as Paul asked them to.
USAID was not established to subsidize American agriculture.
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https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/eliminating-waste-by-the-foreign-aid-bureaucracy/'https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-order/10973https://usafacts.org/articles/federal-farm-subsidies-what-data-says/https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/who-we-are/usaid-history
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