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We never really know how much Congress cares about global poverty until they have to make hard choices. Don’t get me wrongâ€"the overall budget cuts could have been far worse. Everyone is hurting, at home and abroad, so we knew that poverty-fighting budget cuts were coming. What hurt was where they chose to cut and the signal that sends.

Birthed by the Bush Administration, and courageously adopted by President Obama, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a program that does the right thing for the right reasons.

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