Our own budget constraints have meant that worldwide funding for foreign assistance programs has already been severely cut. This provision of $50 million to Northern Ireland. as contained in the conference report. constitutes in fact another cut. The conference report provision would spread the impact of these cuts across a multitude of multilateral and bilateral assistance programs. military assistance. refugee assistance. and even the Eximbank. In all likelihood. the cuts occasioned by the provision in chapter 5 of the conference report will impact most severely on economic development programs in Africa. We simply do not have the funding in the International Affairs accounts to address existing foreign assistance commitments.