GOP chairman responds after protesters are tossed from USAID spending hearing

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A radical of protesters attempted to derail a USAID proceeding astatine the House Foreign Affairs Committee connected Thursday, demanding that President Donald Trump's medication reconstruct assistance funding.

Committee Chairman Brian Mast, R-Fla., poked amusive astatine the protesters for being down the times aft they interrupted opening statements from witnesses earlier the committee.

"PEPFAR saves lives. Restore AIDS backing now," the protesters chanted arsenic they were forced retired of the chamber.

"I conjecture these guys don't ticker the news. They didn't recognize that PREPFAR was 1 of the galore programs that did beryllium to beryllium life-saving truthful the funding was restored," Mast said. "Somebody amended springiness them a nexus to, I don't know, possibly Fox News oregon thing similar that."

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PEPFAR is simply a planetary AIDS alleviation programme that has been credited with redeeming implicit 20 cardinal lives since it was created nether President George W. Bush.

The programme received a waiver from Trump's medication to proceed its enactment contempt the wider backing frost impacting USAID and authorities section assistance programs.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has besides created a wider exemption for "life-saving medicine, aesculapian services, food, shelter, and subsistence assistance, arsenic good arsenic supplies and tenable administrative costs arsenic indispensable to present specified assistance," Congressional Republicans noted successful a memo.

Republicans person blasted the wider wasteful spending astatine USAID and the authorities department, however.

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The memo besides highlighted backing programs including "$39,652 to big seminars astatine the Edinburgh International Book Festival connected gender identity and radical equality done the State Department" and "$425,622 to assistance Indonesian java companies go much clime and sex affable done USAID."

Other priorities listed included "$14 cardinal successful currency vouchers for migrants astatine the confederate borderline done the State Department," "$446,700 to beforehand the enlargement of atheism successful Nepal done the State Department" and "$32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic publication successful Peru."

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