text: Satenaw/Zehabesha: Another popular Trump policy among Ethiopian-Americans is cutting the waste and misuse of US foreign aid in Ethiopia. Just like Welfare’s unintended consequences inside America, Western aid has caused a cycle of dependency in Ethiopia while financing a dictatorship. Would you support more US aid accountability?
  Congressman Coffman: I think there is a better way to do aid. First is humanitarian aid. Instead of providing food shipments which disrupt the markets, we can help the Ethiopian agriculture become more productive.
  So I think there are ways we can do, that i am going to look at, to help the Ethiopian economy more, help Ethiopian agriculture in a more sustainable way.
  Satenaw/Zehabesha: One less reported crisis in Ethiopia is the suffering of millions of mixed-Ethiopians, born with multiple ethnic heritage. Unlike the Oromo and Amhara, mixed-Ethiopians are officially unrecognized by the EPRDF regime and face persecution because they are stateless, according to the new ethnic-federalism. Will lawmakers address this crisis where millions are persecuted, becoming refugees inside tribal enclaves, because they are Ethiopians without ethnic affiliation?
  Certainly, [there should be] respect for everyone within a country, that all members of society have dignity and deserve respect. So that issue is something that could be included in this.