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The Cost of Sending Help: How Remittance Taxes Could Destabilize Haiti

Season 2026 Episode 8171 | 17m 27s

House Republicans are pushing a 25 percent tax on the money immigrants send overseas, and Haiti would be hit especially hard. The country is already grappling with overlapping crises while relying heavily on remittances from the United States, particularly after cuts to USAID. Journalist Ethar El-Katatney joins Hari Sreenivasan to explain its potentially devastating impact.

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