Rob Schmitz

Here we have a land where there isn't any immigration, where it's mostly racially homogenous, where everyone is Christian, et cetera, et cetera, and where you don't have to deal with LGBTQ politics or ideology.

None of that is close to the truth because here in Budapest, this city has one of the biggest pride parades in Europe every year.

It has a very large and open gay community, an LGBTQ community.

There are immigrants here.

There are different ethnicities that come from Hungary like the Roma.

It's a more diverse country I think than what maybe a lot of mega-Republicans think it is.

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This past year, NPR global health and development correspondent Fatma Tanis has been digging into the global impact of billions of dollars of U.S.

aid being cut from programs around the world.

A lot of the headlines in the U.S.

focused on Washington, the chaos, the ideology, the politics.