Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) took to the Senate floor Tuesday to detail some of the items President Donald Trump wants defunded with the passage of the rescission bill.
Here’s some highlights, according to Kennedy:
$6 million appropriated for net-zero cities in Mexico.
$6 million to support media organizations and civic life in Palestine.
$5.1 million to strengthen the resilience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer global movements.
$3 million for circumcision, vasectomies and condoms in Zambia.
$3 million for Iraqi Sesame Street.
$2.5 million for teaching young children how to make environmentally friendly reproductive health decisions.
$67,000 to provide insect powder to children in Madagascar.
$833,000 for services for transgender people, sex workers, their clients and sexual networks in Nepal.
$567,000 for LGBTQ programs in Uganda.
$500,000 to Rwanda to buy electric buses.
“So, when you see us debating whether we should reduce the federal budget by $9.3 billion, which the House has already decided to do, and now it's our turn. And I say, which I have repeatedly said, and will continue to say, is that all the president is asking us to do is cut the spending porn from the budget. You can make up your own mind. It's your money,” Kennedy concluded.
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