Trump threatens to cut aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador over caravans
"Honduras is doing nothing for us. Guatemala is doing nothing for us. El Salvador is doing nothing for us. And we pay them hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but we're going to be stopping pretty soon. In fact, we're looking at it right now," he said. The Trump administration's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2019 included $45.7 million for El Salvador, $69.4 million for Guatemala and $65.8 million for Honduras, according to the Congressional Research Service. The amounts all represented a double-digit reduction from the previous year's funding.
Trump said he believed the three countries could "very easily" stop immigrant caravans from forming. "I actually think they encourage the caravans because they want to get rid of the people from the country, and certain people," Trump told reporters during a meeting on immigration with members of his administration and high-profile Republicans. (Reporting by Steve Holland and Makini Brice in Washington Editing by James Dalgleish)
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