Yellen Says International Aid Programs Crucial to US Leadership
- Treasury chief says US assistance is felt ‘acutely’ in Ukraine
- She calls Biden’s request for World Bank a good investment
Janet Yellen
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the Biden administration’s proposed spending on international aid and investment programs, exemplified by assistance for Ukraine, would strengthen Washington’s leadership abroad and advance US security interests.
“There is perhaps no place where our impact is felt more acutely than in Kyiv,” Yellen says in prepared remarks she’s scheduled to deliver beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday to a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.