Trump targets refugee children by trying to gut UNICEF
Even Trump administration officials are struggling to justify his budget proposal's harsh cuts to a program that helps child refugees from war-torn countries
Donald Trump’s budget proposal is, by basically any measure, a nightmare.
It slashes funding for food stamps. It cuts Medicaid in half. It cuts Social Security Disability Insurance. It blocks the poor from going to Planned Parenthood. It eliminates funding to clean up polluted lakes. It eliminates funding for public defenders. It even defunds the Special Olympics.
Meanwhile, it slashes taxes for billionaires ...
One of the most heartless things about this budget proposal, however, is its treatment of refugee children.
Trump wants to cut $32 billion from the State Department, including $780 million in funding for international programs. This would particularly impact UNICEF, the United Nations organization which focuses on aid for children and mothers in war-torn or developing nations.
UNICEF provides food, clothing, shelter, vaccines, medicine, and educational supplies to millions of displaced children around the world, and when possible, reunites them with their families.
Trump has made his antipathy towards refugees known ... but this new budget proposal would not just keep refugees out of the United States — it would cut funding to help refugee children all over the world.
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