Scott Jennings: If the American People Choose a President Who Want to Do Foreign Aid and Soft Power a Different Way, That’s Fine

RUSH EXCRPT:

JENNINGS: “Look, I think a couple of things can be true at the same time. Soft power is a good thing, and it does make a difference when it is deployed correctly and in a smart way. And the president‘s opinion and Marco Rubio‘s opinion is that the usaid bureaucracy and the quasi governmental bureaucracy in these ngos that had grown up around it were in many cases taking taxpayer dollars and not using it in furtherance of the foreign policy of the current administration. And so what they‘ve tried to do is eliminate the bureaucracy that they think was working at cross purposes with what they believed is best for America, and put it directly under the accountable political leadership of the State Department, which in this case is the secretary of state. No, I don‘t believe we are fully pulling back on soft power. But there‘s a difference between smart spending and dumb money, and we have exposed, time and again, millions upon millions of dollars being spent on programs that everybody at this table would agree, sound.”