Pompeo Pressures To Cut Benghazi Charity Funding

Foreign Policy reports:

As a little-known congressman from Kansas, Mike Pompeo once said his top priority was getting to the bottom of the killing of J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, calling them heroes who had been let down by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other Democratic leaders who put politics above the safety of their own people.

But as U.S. secretary of state, Pompeo is now pressing to eliminate a $5 million contribution to a charity dedicated to Stevens’s memory. The proposal to zero out funding for the Stevens Initiative, which promotes exchanges among students in the United States and the Middle East and North Africa, is buried on page 33 of the State Department’s fiscal year 2021 budget proposal, along with proposed cuts for cultural exchange and study programs for Arab Israelis, Tibet, Taiwan, Timor Leste, and others.

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— Blake News (@blakehounshell) February 14, 2020

$5M is less than Pompeo and @TGowdySC spent on the Benghazi investigation itself.

— Austin Evers (@AREvers) February 14, 2020