foreign aid

International and foreign aid is also likely to be important.

If Congress has its way, foreign aid will be cut still further.

Even several billion dollars in foreign aid might not be enough.

Many of them talk about using their new majority to cut foreign aid by 15 to 20 percent.

"People wouldn't be against foreign aid if their needs were met."

Thus, they believe in economic development, independent of foreign aid.

The two together would reduce foreign aid by more than 35 percent.

But foreign aid is only a small part of the solution.

"I think a lot of people here care about foreign aid," he said.

"We know nothing about any foreign aid," he said last week.