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Delaware senator Chris Coans agreed with CNN presenter Michael Smerconish who will finance a “Sesame Street” show in Iraq It could be a good use of taxpayers’ funds to teach “values” to Iraqi children.
Smerconish commented on his title program on Saturday about reports that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) gave $ 20 million to a non -profit organization called Sesame Workshop to produce a program called “Ahlan Simsim Iraq” in an effort to “promote mutual inclusion, respect and understanding in ethnic, religious and sectarian groups.” The show began in 2021 and will run until 2027.
He asked Coans and his viewers if they believe that this could be an effective use of “soft power” despite facing a violent reaction from conservative legislators.
“This is not just financing a show for children for children, millions of children in countries like Iraq,” Coons said. “It is a program that helps teach values, helps teach public health, helps prevent children from dying and disease and helping to boost values such as collaboration, tranquility, cooperation in a society where the alternative is ISIS, extremism and terrorism. ”
Senator Chris Coans gave his opinion about the “Smerconish” of CNN on Saturday. (CNN screen capture)
He continued: “And to his point, they are cents in dollar. Policitologist Joseph Nye) often said that it is not just a soft power, it is an intelligent power.”
Smerconish also seemed to defend the funds for the program while surveying viewers for their opinion.
“Nye himself said, in the short term, hard power generally triumphs over soft power, but the long -term effects could be the opposite. Or, as he called my Sirius XM radio program, he said yesterday, who would he prefer Teach Iraqi children?
USAID has been accused of granting $ 20 million to the Sesame workshop for a program in Iraq. (Getty images)
Near the end of his program, Smerconish revealed that 72% of their viewers supported taxpayers financing the international series. He argued that the political controversy that surrounds it probably came from the “sound” policy instead of the program itself.
“Now that makes it a better political problem than I said at the beginning of the program? I don’t hate the United States, “Smerconish said. “And as I told Chris Coans, you know, it’s a sound of sound sound in which we live, much easier to be derogatory and say, do you imagine that they are spending all this money to fill the cars blank? Vietnam? “
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The Iraqi children of unnecessary expenses and abuses.
Elon Musk, Doge and the Trump administration have addressed Usaid for wasteful expenses and abuses. (Getty images)
Although Doge and the Trump administration have aimed to close the agency as a result, a Blocked federal judge The efforts of President Donald Trump to put thousands of USAID workers licensed on Friday.
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Emma Colton of Fox News contributed to this report.
