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The Weekly GAB  Friday, September 1, 2017
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USGLC in the News

THE WICHITA EAGLE
When America Leads, Kansas Wins
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Sheryl Wohlford, owner of Automation-Plus in Wichita and a member of
the USGLC's Kansas State Advisory Committee

America is at a crossroads, and we have a choice to make. We can
choose to reassert U.S. leadership on the world stage, or we can
reject our role as a global leader and turn inward. Though these
choices may sound abstract, they are anything but and the decisions we
make today will ultimately define our country's legacy in the
21st century. This debate has been playing out for months in
Washington sparked by a call from the Trump Administration to cut
international affairs spending by a third. And even with
Washington's habit of politicizing nearly everything, U.S.
foreign assistance has long garnered support on both sides of the
aisle. Beyond our country's borders, we're not Republicans
or Democrats, we're Americans and we all have our
country's best interest at heart.

WISHTV
Security, Prosperity Among Topics at US Sen. Young Forum  |

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Elizabeth Choi

U.S. Sen. Todd Young met with leaders Monday in a forum to discuss
national security and economic prosperity. The meeting came after
President Donald Trump's administration proposed budget cuts for
2017 that Young calls deep. According to Young, a Republican from
Indiana, we're talking about a third of the budget for the State
Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
It's an economic issue that snowballs into a global security
issue, Young feared. Young is concerned budget cuts would prevent the
United States from being able to offer foreign aid, which, in turn,
would cause global security problems. He mentioned specifically the
Ebola outbreak of 2014. "We assisted the impacted countries,
Seirra Leon, Guinea, Liberia, and we also helped contain the spread of
Ebola which protected Americans," Young said.

GLOBAL ATLANTA

Global Leadership Panel Avoids Most Controversial Issues to Focus on
U.S. Diplomacy and Aid  |

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Phil Bolton

As President Donald Trump threatens a federal government shutdown if
Congress fails to provide the money to put up a wall between Mexico
and the United States, he may have been surprised by the full throated
support a panel including U.S. Sen. David Perdue of Georgia gave to
U.S. diplomacy and aid for the country's continued engagement in
the world. Mr. Perdue was joined by U.S. Air Force (Ret.) General
Richard Hawley and Michael Goltzman, vice president for global public
policy and international government relations at the Coca-Cola Co. at
the luncheon hosted by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.

FOX59

Indiana Business, Political and Community Leaders Gather for
Discussion on National Security  |

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Matt Smith

The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition hosted several hundred business,
political and community leaders in downtown Indianapolis Monday,
prompting a panel discussion on the U.S. role in global affairs and
the proposed Trump administration cuts to the U.S. State Department
and U.S. Agency for International Development. "The proposed
cuts, we have grave concerns," Liz Schrayer said, USGLC
president and CEO. he panel underscored what it described as serious
national security implications with the president's proposed
cuts. "We're getting larger crowds than we've ever
had," Schrayer said. "We're getting more interest
from members of Congress, from both Democrats and Republicans that
want to have these platforms. They are committed to development and
diplomacy. They are committed to the State Department and USAID
funding."

GLOBAL ATLANTA

Guest Commentary: Standing Up for International Development Yields
Gains for Georgia

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Frank Sims, Atlanta resident, retired Cargill Inc. employee, and a
member of the Board of Directors of Pact

Health care, immigration, the opioid epidemic. With so many challenges
in our own backyards, it is easy to understand why many Americans
might shy away from challenges overseas that don't seem to
directly affect us. We don't live in a vacuum. For better or
worse, we live in a rapidly globalizing world. An increase in the
price of one commodity ripples throughout global markets, and ends up
impacting supply, demand and prices here at home. We can't turn
a blind eye to issues outside the borders of the United States.
According to a recent report by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition,
international trade alone supports 41 million American jobs, and
emerging economies account for nearly 60 percent of the global economy
and more than half of U.S. exports.

NEVADA BUSINESS MAGAZINE

Taking Nevada to the World: Globalization and Nevada's Place in
the International Market  |

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Jennifer Rachel Baumer

International trade doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's tied
into government policies and national security. Embassies do more than
visas and passports and most of the larger embassies have an economic
mission as well, said former Senator Richard Bryan, co-chair, U.S.
Global Leadership Coalition. As the world economy grows, there's
an expanding middle class in developing countries who want to come and
see the U.S. Tourism can be considered an export as well as an
economic driver with 40 million visitors heading to Southern Nevada
annually. A developing world, with its developing economy, has a
correlation to national security.

Who's in the News

THE HILL
Born Out of War, World Bank Is Beacon of Security Around Globe

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William Danvers, Special Representative for International Affairs at
the World Bank

During the second World War, allied nations came together to create
global institutions to shape the future of a post-war era, with the
goal of preventing another catastrophic war. One of these intuitions,
the World Bank, or the International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, was designed specifically to help rebuild countries in
the aftermath of the war. The World Bank Group, as it is now called,
has grown and evolved into one of the largest sources of development
aid, reducing poverty and promoting stability, security and economic
growth around the world.

Development & Diplomacy

THE WASHINGTON POST

United States to Give Ethiopia $91 Million in Drought Aid for Food and
Medicine  |

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Carol Morello

The United States will provide an additional $91 million in
humanitarian aid for Ethiopia to cope with a third straight year of
drought, the top U.S. official in charge of assistance said Thursday.
The extra funding brings U.S. aid for food and medical care in
Ethiopia to $454 million this year, said Mark Green, the new
administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. An
extra $210 million in U.S. aid has gone to development projects. Green
announced the additional aid after he met with Ethiopian Prime
Minister Hailemariam Desalegn.

CNN
First on CNN: Tillerson Moves to Ditch Special Envoys  |

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Elise Labott, Nicole Gaouette and Jeremy Herb

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is moving to eliminate or downgrade
special envoy positions at the State Department, including the
representative for climate change, a step that is sure to ignite
vociferous opposition from some members of Congress. In a letter
obtained by CNN and written to Senator Bob Corker, the Tennessee
Republican who heads the foreign relations committee, Tillerson said
he would end or transfer as many as three dozen special envoy
positions. "I believe that the Department will be able to better
execute its mission by integrating certain envoys and special
representative offices within the regional and functional bureaus,"
Tillerson wrote Corker, "and eliminating those that have accomplished
or outlived their original purpose." Special envoys for Syria, Sudan
and South Sudan, and the Arctic will be eliminated.

THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL

Sidestepping Politics, Wisconsin's Mark Green Takes Over Top Foreign
Aid Post Under Trump  |

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Craig Gilbert

Roughly a decade after his Wisconsin political career came to an
unwelcome end, Mark Green said he's happy to be watching
politics from the outside -in the "cheap
seats"...[Green] was picked by President Donald Trump to be his
top foreign aid official and assumed the job in early August. But his
agency faces political issues...A major one is how much money Trump is
willing to spend on foreign aid. The president's preliminary
budget plan called for a 40% cut in the USAID budget...Congress
won't endorse a cut that size, but Green's budget will almost
certainly shrink. "There is not enough to do everything
we'd like to do," Green said. "On the other hand,
I've had strong expressions of support, including from the
secretary (of state) for what our broad plans are," he said,
referring to Rex Tillerson.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
U.S. Gives Military Assistance to Pakistan, With Strings Attached  |

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Gardiner Harris

The Trump administration notified Congress on Wednesday that it was
putting $255 million in military assistance to Pakistan into the
equivalent of an escrow account that Islamabad can only access if it
does more to crack down on internal terror networks launching attacks
on neighboring Afghanistan. The dueling messages sent to Pakistan
- promising aid but attaching strings if the country's
counterterror efforts fall short - are part of an increasingly
confrontational turn in an alliance that has long been strained. State
Department officials said...Once Pakistan more aggressively pursues
the Taliban and Haqqani network, the aid will be released - a
determination to be made by Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson,
officials said.

THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

Dallas' Ray Washburne Has $29B to Lend, and a Mission to Boost U.S.
Interests Around the Globe  |

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Todd J. Gillman

Ray Washburne, the Dallas investor, restaurateur and GOP fundraising
powerhouse, has a message for U.S. companies eyeing opportunity in
trouble spots around the globe. He has $29 billion to lend. Pick up
the phone. "We're here. We're open for business," he said. This month,
Washburne took the helm at the Overseas Private Investment Corp., a
little-known federal agency created in Cold War days to win hearts and
minds through the power of capitalism, by helping U.S. firms do
business in developing countries where commercial lenders are wary.

Politics & Foreign Policy

THE MIAMI HERALD

Can an America First Nation Get the World's Help After Harvey?
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Markos Kounalakis

Natural disasters know no political boundaries. And that's why
international humanitarian relief flows so quickly, and in such great
and humbling quantities, when hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis
strike. But today, with Houston suffering as Mother Nature's
latest victim, will the world's giving nations step-up and
step-in to help American relief efforts? Or are things in an America
First world different? In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the New
Orleans tragedy that followed, the world was tripping over itself to
help George W. Bush and Louisiana. In contrast, the response to Harvey
is near deafening silence. Maybe a distracted State Department
experiencing attrition is unable to process foreign offers and aid.
But it might also be that Trump actively alienates American friends
and allies, boasts he is cutting USAID, and makes clear that America
First translates into an aid policy of every nation for itself.

THE WASHINGTON POST
Tillerson Says Trump 'Speaks for Himself' on Values  |

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Anne Gearan

President Trump "speaks for himself" on his values,
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday. The U.S. commitment to
tolerance and equality is unchanged, Tillerson said, in the wake of
controversy over Trump's response to racially tinged violence.
"We express America's values from the State Department -
our commitment to freedom, our commitment to equal treatment of people
the world over," Tillerson said on "Fox News
Sunday," adding: "And that message has never
changed." A United Nations committee last week criticized Trump
for what it deemed his failure to fully condemn hatred and bigotry in
the wake of deadly violence at a white supremacist march in
Charlottesville earlier this month. "I don't believe anyone
doubts the American people's values," or the U.S. government's
willingness to defend them, Tillerson said.

REUTERS

U.S. Retaliates Against Russia, Orders Closure of Consulate, Annexes
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Yeganeh Torbati

The United States has told Russia to close its consulate in San
Francisco and buildings in Washington and New York that house trade
missions, the State Department said on Thursday, in retaliation for
Moscow cutting the U.S. diplomatic presence in Russia. The
announcement was the latest in tit-for-tat measures between the two
countries that have helped to drive relations to a new post-Cold War
low, thwarting hopes on both sides that they might improve after U.S.
President Donald Trump took office in January.

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