Opinion: Trump is turning his back on refugees — and America’s tradition of compassion
By Editorial Board March 14 at 7:34 PM IN SEEKING to justify the Trump administration’s massive reduction in the number of refugees allowed into the United States, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — who resisted the scale of the cut but lost out to White House hard-liners — has said Washington and its Western allies should “take care of them over there.” The administration’s budget proposal shows that its true policy is to turn its back on refugees wherever they may be.
Along with its crusade to whack refugee resettlement, the administration would drastically cut humanitarian aid generally, as well as global health programs. Such aid would be shrunk across the board, including funds to alleviate suffering from hunger and natural disasters. Though it cannot unilaterally downsize department and program budgets, the White House can reorder priorities within agencies, and it is doing so with a vengeance in its full-court press against refugees. A key agency, U.S.
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