Up the United States Foreign Policy in the country of iraq take this weeks newsworthy revelations that the u. S. Government in retaliation to the Iraqi Parliament is recent nonbinding vote to expel u. S. Military forces from its lands well the u. S. Government is now contemplating cutting military aid to the war torn economically it may see a good middle eastern country wall street journal is reporting that according to emails between the state department and the War Department sorry the department of defense the trumpet ministration is preparing possible cuts of 250000000 military aid to iraq funds already approved by congress if the government truly expels u. S. Troops and the state Department Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs also has plans to ask the White House Office of management and budget whether it can eliminate the 100000000. 00 request for fiscal year 2021 due to current optics on the ground. Current optics on the ground optics like the fact that most iraqi citizens are none t
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247 news live from moscow this is our international from the team on myself you know me alone welcome. Russia has a new Prime Minister lawmakers approved to. Come to see earlier on thursday with president putin then signing off on the appointment to tranquil has more of the day on food. Well it only took this country what was it slightly more than 24 hours to come from the point when the president proposed to tweak some elements of russias constitution which by the way didnt automatically mean that the cabinet would have to step down to a moving towards the point when the russian state duma approved the name of the countrys new Prime Minister that is. So the result was 383. 00. Votes in favor about 40 abstentions and 0 votes again so this is the kind of backing the and coming Prime Minister is getting which is very important obviously in his position and clearly we were listening to his speech right before the vote which was obviously filled with quite a few promises so here are some o
All right. Hearing will come to order. Welcome, everyone. The subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony on u. S. Policy in iraq. I thank our witness for appearing today. Before recognizing myself for the purpose of making an Opening Statement, i would like to take the opportunity to recognize and thank the members of our committee who served in iraq. Were grateful for your service and your input today is going to be invaluable. I will now ill make an Opening Statement and turn it over to the Ranking Member. Also before i begin on my comments here, i would like to take a moment to express my condolences to the families and friends of the sailors killed in pensacola last friday, the three sailers dedicated their lives were taken from us far too soon. And we need answers about the shooter and how this happened. Certainly at this point, the president and all of us must require the kingdom to give full and transparent cooperation with the United States investigation so we can understa