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Donald Trump's Public Statements on Issue: Foreign Aid

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12/10/2020	Executive Order on Rebranding United States Foreign Assistance to Advance American Influence
01/23/2020	Tweet - "The Democrats & Shifty Schiff, whose presentation to the Senate was loaded with lies and misrepresentations, are refusing to state that the Obama Administration withheld aid from many countries including Ukraine, Pakistan, Philippines, Egypt, Honduras, & Mexico. Witch Hunt!"
08/18/2019	Remarks by President Trump Before Air Force One Departure
07/17/2019	Remarks by President Trump in Meeting with Survivors of Religious Persecution
02/07/2019	Remarks by President Trump at Signing of the National Security Presidential Memorandum to Launch the W-GDP Initiative
01/05/2019	Tweet - "The Democrats want Billions of Dollars for Foreign Aid, but they don't want to spend a small fraction of that number on properly securing our Border. Figure that one out!"
11/12/2018	Tweet - "Just returned from France where much was accomplished in my meetings with World Leaders. Never easy bringing up the fact that the U.S. must be treated fairly, which it hasn't, on both Military and Trade. We pay for LARGE portions of other countries military protection,........"
10/22/2018	Tweet - "Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the U.S. We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them."
10/22/2018	Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure
10/16/2018	Tweet - "We have today informed the countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador that if they allow their citizens, or others, to journey through their borders and up to the United States, with the intention of entering our country illegally, all payments made to them will STOP (END)!"
09/25/2018	Remarks by President Trump to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly \| New York, NY
01/01/2018	Tweet - "The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!"
07/24/2017	Tweet - "The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad....."
07/13/2017	Remarks by President Trump and President Macron of France in Joint Press Conference
06/01/2017	Statement by President Trump on the Paris Climate Accord
03/04/2017	Tweet - "Just out: The same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the Obama White House 22 times, and 4 times last year alone."
02/15/2017	Tweet - "Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?"
02/02/2017	Tweet - "Iran was on its last legs and ready to collapse until the U.S. came along and gave it a life-line in the form of the Iran Deal: $150 billion"

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