Senate Democrat asks government watchdog to audit Trump foreign assistance cuts

Senate Democrat asks government watchdog to audit Trump foreign assistance cuts

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is asking an independent government watchdog to analyze the consequences of President Trump’s foreign aid cuts.  The request, to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), demonstrates one avenue the minority party is using to exercise accountability…

How Trump’s cuts to U.S. foreign aid are imperiling Syria’s war crimes investigations

DAMASCUS, Syria — Omar Halaby hobbles through the ruins of his old neighborhood on one leg, with a crutch.A freckled former teen fighter, Halaby lost his right leg in a 2017 air and artillery attack by Syrian forces loyal to then-President Bashar al-Assad. With Assad’s ouster in December, Halaby, now 29, returned to his neighborhood of Jobar, on the edge of Damascus, to watch a backhoe unearth the remains of at least eight of his comrades from a…

Ilhan Omar Asked By Voter Why Senate Democrats 'Are Not Standing Strongly In Opposition' To Trump

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