Cornyn: We are not sure if providing aid to Central America is working

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. John Cornyn says he does not know if giving financial aid to the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala is helping or not.

Cornyn spoke about a wide-range of international issues during a conversation with Jane Harman, the former U.S. representative from Los Angeles who now heads up the Wilson Center.

“In terms of the foreign aid, I have talked to your outstanding staff here at the Wilson Center,” Cornyn told Harman.

“I think Congress really does not know what works and what does not work. I do not know whether we ought to triple our foreign aid budget or quadruple it, or quintuple it or cut it to zero because I am really not sure what works.”

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