Maintain international development and foreign aid as tools of American national security and global leadership.

International development efforts and foreign aid are essential to American national security. Development helps secure America’s role as a world leader, stabilizes some of the most troubling and dangerous parts of the world, and fosters markets for American goods.

Booker committed to supporting foreign aid and international development as part of U.S. security strategy and leadership.

Keeping America Secure | Cory Booker for US Senate
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Senate roll call Vote 339 on H.R. 2029 recorded the motion agreed to, 65 yeas to 33 nays. The vote list shows Booker (D-NJ), Yea.

Booker voted for the FY2016 consolidated appropriations package that became the vehicle funding State Department, USAID, and foreign operations programs.

delivered same_term A for effort

U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 339, 114th Congress, 1st Session
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The law includes Division K, Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2016, with titles for USAID, bilateral economic assistance, international security assistance, and multilateral assistance. It appropriated USAID operating expenses, global health programs, development assistance, international disaster assistance, and transition initiatives.

The enacted bill Booker supported maintained major international development and foreign aid accounts for FY2016, including USAID and bilateral assistance programs.

delivered same_term

Public Law 114-113, Division N - Cybersecurity Act of 2015
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Senate roll call Vote 121 on H.R. 244, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, recorded the motion agreed to, 79 yeas to 18 nays. The vote list shows Booker (D-NJ), Yea.

Booker again voted for a consolidated appropriations law that continued State Department, USAID, foreign operations, and international assistance funding during his 2015-2021 Senate term.

delivered same_term A for effort

U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 115th Congress - 1st Session, Vote 121
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The law includes Division J, Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2017. It appropriated USAID operating expenses, global health programs, development assistance, international disaster assistance, transition initiatives, complex crises funding, development credit authority, economic support funds, and democracy funds.

The enacted FY2017 appropriations law maintained a broad set of foreign aid and international development tools, matching the promise’s substance when paired with Booker's yea vote.

delivered same_term

Public Law 115-31, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017
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Senate roll call Vote 63 on H.R. 1625 recorded the motion agreed to, 65 yeas to 32 nays. The vote list shows Booker (D-NJ), Nay.

Booker did not vote for every omnibus appropriations vehicle during the term, so the record is not a perfect vote-by-vote delivery pattern even though the broader package passed.

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 115th Congress - 2nd Session, Vote 63
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