Bloomberg
By Ian Katz
September 14, 2015
Republican
presidential candidate John Kasich said he supports President Barack
Obama’s plan to admit at least 10,000 Syrian refugees to the U.S. over
the next year.
“I
support that,” Kasich, governor of Ohio, said on Fox News Sunday,
adding “It’s very important that we don’t let anybody infiltrate who’s
part of a radical group. But
America needs to be part of this solution.”
The U.S. also could provide logistical support and humanitarian aid, Kasich said.
“It’s very important that we don’t let anybody infiltrate who’s part of a radical group.”
Governor John Kasich
The
prospect of increasing refugee inflows has been a delicate issue for
U.S. politicians. Donald Trump, the current Republican frontrunner, has
said he reluctantly agrees
that the U.S. needs to try to help. “I hate the concept of it, but on a
humanitarian basis, you have to,” Trump said in a Sept. 1 interview
with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.
Kasich
on Sunday also expressed opposition to a government shutdown that may
be looming. Current government funding expires at the end of September
and Congress hasn’t
yet enacted any of the 12 annual spending bills for the fiscal year
starting Oct. 1.
Potential
defunding of Planned Parenthood, the women’s reproductive health
service, has emerged as a key demand by some conservative lawmakers in
exchange for agreeing
to not close the government down.
“Planned
Parenthood ought to be defunded,” Kasich said. However, if the
government is shut down, “you’re never going to get anything signed by
the president because he’s
in total opposition. So you’d shut the government down, and then over
time you’d have to open it back up again and you wouldn’t have achieved
much.”
A
Sept. 6 NBC News/Marist poll showed Kasich, with 12 percent, running in
second place in New Hampshire behind Trump, who had 28 percent. New
Hampshire will hold the first
presidential primary election of 2016.
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