HIAS strongly condemns the passage of the administration’s rescissions package through both houses of Congress, which eliminates $8 billion in previously approved foreign assistance funding. This decision is a devastating blow to U.S. leadership on the global stage and a betrayal of our nation’s long-standing commitment to humanitarian values.
“The passage of the president’s rescissions package represents a stunning and cruel abdication of U.S. moral and humanitarian leadership that will have life-and-death consequences for millions of people around the world,” said Noah Gottschalk, HIAS Vice President of International Policy and Advocacy. “Denying food, clean water, and medicine to people experiencing conflict, crisis, and forced displacement won’t make the US stronger or more prosperous; on the contrary, it will make our world less stable, and all of us less secure.”
At a time when more people around the world have been forcibly displaced than ever before in recorded history, this vote will deepen suffering and exacerbate instability in some of the world’s most fragile contexts. Even in an increasingly challenging landscape, HIAS will uphold our Jewish and humanitarian values and continue to do all we can to support and protect forcibly displaced people around the world. Now more than ever, we must reaffirm our commitment to a compassionate, principled foreign policy that upholds the dignity and rights of all people.
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