Majority of House Republicans try to strip all funding from Peace Corps

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Source: Shareblue

By
Dan Desai Martin -
June 19, 2019

Not a single Democrat voted to take money away from the Peace Corps program.

Republicans tried and failed to take away all funding from the Peace Corps during a Tuesday evening House vote.

An amendment offered by Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) to slash $19 billion for U.S. foreign assistance — including every penny supporting the Peace Corps — failed spectacularly in a 110-315 vote.

The measure failed because a united Democratic majority voted against it, with not a single Democrat supporting the draconian cut. Every one of the 110 votes to take away Peace Corps funding came from Republicans, and only a minority of GOP House members, 81 Republicans, voted with Democrats to preserve Peace Corps funding.

Walker’s bill would have reallocated the funding from Peace Corps and other international priorities to domestic issues.

Read more: https://shareblue.com/republicans-failed-strip-funding-peace-corps/

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Established by President Kennedy in 1961, the Peace Corps has seen more than 220,000 Americans serve abroad, working on issues such as reducing malaria, economically empowering women and girls, and reducing global hunger.

"I felt compelled to contribute to the goodness in the world and expand its reach, offering skills to help build a more inclusive global economy through local business and entrepreneurship," Yvette Garcia, a community economic development volunteer in the Dominican Republic, said about her reason for joining Peace Corps.

Americans like Garcia and thousands of other Peace Corps volunteers help make the world a better place, working to spread peace and prosperity.

Yet most Republicans wanted to put an end to all of that good work.

November 3, 202 cannot get here fast enough


Yepper........................... this Walker character is true racist if you think about it..........................

[saidsimplesimon]

2. More blah, blah, blah attacks

Makes them look weak. imo

[saidsimplesimon]

4. Chin, hoist them on their own petards. imo

[Honeycombe8]

5. At least SOME House Repubs voted to preserve Peace Corps.

That's a glimmer of hope that some human beings remain that party.

The Republican Party is unrecognizable. What the hell has happened to those people? Americans have never had large groups of people like this in its electorate before, that I know of.

This is different.

[bluestarone]

7. I cannot AGREE more!

What the hell has happened to these monsters?

[cstanleytech]

9. My inner cynic says its more likely the few that voted with our guys did so because

they are afraid of the repercussions in the upcoming elections rather than having some inner spark of human decency.

[bobbieinok]

6. WHY?!?! Absolutely insane.

Oh....., I guess I get it--people in Peace Corps learn people exist who are not white Christians. Can't have that

[Progressive Jones]

8. The ill-informed have been riled up against their own nation.

Bad Senators and Reps are sent to DC by voters with naturally low standards. Combine poor education, racism, and the right wing propaganda media, and you get "The Tea Party". They aren't necessarily bad people. They just have a narrow scope of reality.

These are people who don't know what good things are. Everything is worn out and broken in their universe. Bad infrastructure. No meaningful opportunities. They are desperate, and easily manipulated by con men, preachers, and GOP politicians. Many of them have never been outside of their home States, with some never venturing outside the county they live in. They are not worldly people. They just don't know, and they just can't see how much better they could have it.

[mopinko]

11. the peace corp should get more than the damn pentagon.

yeah, i know. i dont have a magic wand, and they arent likely to hand one to me. but this would be one of my very first changes.
at least make it a fixed proportion, and tie increases together.
you can throw in americorp if you want.

the thing is, when the climate collapses, the military is gonna end up doing what the peace corp does better.
they already do. a lot of what was done in afghanistan was building civic infrastructure. schools, hospitals, digging wells.
but then that stuff gets blown up because the military built it.

stop thinking warriors make good peace keepers. they dont.

[Skittles]

12. repukes make me SICK

[Omaha Steve]

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