Ranking Member Frankel Votes to Protect Life-Saving Foreign Assistance, Vital Public Broadcasting

Ranking Member Frankel Votes to Protect Life-Saving Foreign Assistance, Vital Public Broadcasting

Tonight, Representative Lois Frankel (FL-22), Ranking Member of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State and Related Programs released the following statement after voting against the Republicans' rescissions package, a bill that claws back $9 billion in life-saving humanitarian and development funding and trusted public broadcasting.

"I voted no because this bill marks a dangerous turn toward indifference, isolation, and the betrayal of our global responsibilities," said Ranking Member Frankel. "It guts programs that have saved lives, opened markets, and prevented conflict for decades. Through defunding of public broadcasting, it will leave millions of Americans less informed and less prepared for disasters."

"Worse yet, this bill signs away Congress's power of the purse and hands it squarely to Donald Trump.

This won't lower costs for American families or shrink the deficit. But it will make the world more dangerous-and make our country less safe, less secure, less prosperous and less respected in the world."

Congresswoman Frankel's remarks delivered on the House Floor are here.