Chris Coons (D): Trump's Policies Undermine Global Safety, Health, & Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts

Chris Coons (D): Relocate 2 million Palestinians when the neighboring countries Egypt and Jordan do not want Palestinians to be forcibly relocated to their territory and Gazans are not seeking to be relocated as struck me as a dangerous distraction. Um part of why I had that expression was I had just come from the floor of the Senate where I was talking earnestly, eagerly pressing a whole group of my colleagues about the importance of foreign aid and what is going on right now where President Trump is effectively shutting down the global network of programs that keep us safer and stronger, that help prevent public health diseases outbreaks like Ebola in Uganda from getting to the United States. They help counter human trafficking in countries like Mexico. They help provide stability and security in countries that have been torn apart by civil war. The Chinese are already moving into some of the spaces we're leaving, um, because of our withdrawal from foreign assistance around the world. And I think who's going to be cheering the decision by President Trump to shut down USAID and foreign aid is terrorists and traffickers, China and Russia. His further suggestion, Andrea, that we should somehow go into the Gaza Strip, occupy it, and rebuild it, um, I think is both a distraction from what's going on, the pushback on Elon Musk and his role in shutting down foreign aid and a dangerous and ill conceive proposal.