It is $410 million below the Presidents request. Economic assistance is up $839 million focused primarily on three items. We have an increase of $640 million directed at the needs of children. at the special needs of Africa with their incredible famine. and for refugees. On refugees. the committee has been determined to end what has been a multiyear fiction under which the costs for refugee programs have been routinely understated. thus requiring supplemental appropriations later in the year. This committee has provided a significant increase in refugee funding and in dispgter funding because we think we have an obligation to bring real numbers to th) floor. not numbers which are understated in a phony way. For population we pi ovide a $50 million increase over last year. We provide $400 million for the European Development Bank.
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