After Elon Musk’s DOGE team terminated half a billion dollars in grants to combat child and slave labor, Sen. Brian Schatz is sounding the alarm.
In late March, according to The Washington Post, DOGE axed more than $500 million in allocated funding for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs to combat child labor around the globe. That cut is expected to end 69 programs addressing forced labor and child labor in over 40 countries.
On Tuesday, Schatz sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer calling out cuts that, Schatz and 11 other Democratic senators who signed the letter said, will “hurt children.”