Trump budget: UN sounds alarm over foreign aid cuts, while OMB dir. is proud to ignore famine

[muriel_volestrangler]

The UN said recently that the world is facing its worst humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II, with 20 million people in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria facing starvation and famine

At a briefing at the White House, Al Jazeera's James Bays asked Trump's budget director whether the administration was worried that some of the most vulnerable people on Earth would suffer as a result of proposed cuts to foreign aid.

"We're absolutely reducing funding to the UN and to the various foreign aid programmes, including those run by the UN and other agencies. That should come as a surprise to no one who watched the (presidential) campaign," Mick Mulvaney responded.

"The president said specifically hundreds of times ... 'I'm going to spend less money on people overseas and more money on people back home'. And that's exactly what we're doing with this budget."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/trump-budget-cuts-foreign-aid-170316233601387.html

Mulvaney is plainly a psychopath.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. They want to kill poor people and old people ...They actively seek to do that.

Either we get that through our collective thick fucking skulls or it will be too late soon for any of us.

[yeoman6987]

2. I heard Europe was stepping up funding

So hopefully that will be evough to cover.

[pangaia]

3. More money on people back home? HUH!!!

Oh, the .01%,, right.. forgot that part,,,