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Showing posts with label foreign aid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreign aid. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Democrats warn Trump plans to kill $3.2B in Hill-approved foreign aid - Live Updates - POLITICO
Congress “did not hand Trump a checkbook to spend on whatever he pleases while blocking funding for everything else,” Murray and Schatz said in a joint statement, urging Republican lawmakers to join them in demanding that the administration use those dollars “as Congress intended” before they expire next week…
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Trump Promises Billions in Aid to Gaza as Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Kill 12 Palestinians – Mother Jones
Countries will also send thousands of personnel to "maintain Security and Peace for Gazans," the president wrote on Truth Social… While it remains unclear which of the more than 20 members would make the pledge, the Associated Press reported that Indonesia said up to 8,000 troops would be ready for deployment to Gaza by June…
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Vance announces aid restrictions for groups that promote diversity, transgender policies abroad - POLITICO
That means that any organizations receiving U.S. non-military funding will not be able to work on abortion, DEI and issues related to transgender people, even if that work is done with other funding sources...
Friday, January 23, 2026
Abortion opponents demand more as Trump targets Planned Parenthood, foreign aid and fetal tissue research - POLITICO
The administration moves, timed around the annual March for Life, may not win back frustrated groups...
Thursday, December 25, 2025
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid — ProPublica
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again...
https://www.propublica.org/article/kakuma-kenya-matenity-ward-foreign-aid-cuts
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Trump administration to destroy nearly $10m of contraceptives for women overseas
As part of president's end to foreign aid, destruction of the long-acting contraceptives will cost US taxpayers $167,000…
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Republicans call Schumer's bluff on cuts to PBS and foreign aid
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has warned Republicans they'll be left to figure out a potential government shutdown on their own if they keep the partisan cuts coming.
But GOP leaders insist they aren't worried...
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/17/republicans-spending-cuts-pbs-npr-foreign-aid
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
US evangelical groups urge Trump to spare HIV/Aids program from aid cuts
Christian organizations helped create Pepfar, credited with preventing 25m early deaths, particularly in Africa…
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Supreme Court rejects Trump's bid to avoid paying nearly $2 billion in foreign aid
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett were with the three Democratic appointees in the majority, while Republican-appointed Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh dissented…
Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts
The president's marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he's been corrected on but continued to repeat…
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Federal judge rules Trump administration has to pay millions in foreign aid to nonprofits - ABC News
A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration to dole out millions of dollars to multiple nonprofits groups, determining the Trump administration violated the terms of a temporary restraining order issued two weeks ago regarding freezing foreign aid…
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Trump ordered to temporarily lift USAid freeze and allow foreign aid funding
Judge challenges administration's dismantling of US foreign assistance and sets five-day deadline to prove compliance
Friday, February 14, 2025
Exclusive: Trump’s foreign aid freeze stops anti-fentanyl work in Mexico | Reuters
President Donald Trump has vowed to destroy Mexican cartels and end the U.S. fentanyl epidemic, but his sweeping freeze on foreign aid has temporarily stopped U.S.-funded anti-narcotics programs in Mexico that for years have been working to curb the flow of the synthetic opioid into the United States...
Monday, February 10, 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Trump to withdraw U.S. from United Nations Human Rights Council : NPR
The president's executive order will also cut future funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides aid to Palestinians…
Monday, April 29, 2024
🚨 Obama aide drops BAD NEWS on Marjorie Taylor Greene
INTERVIEW: Brian interviews Pod Save America co-host Tommy Vietor about the passage of foreign aid, how it’s impacted Marjorie Taylor Greene’s standing, and the implications of TikTok’s possible ban in the US.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Opinion | These legislators opposed Ukraine aid and their own states’ interests - The Washington Post
Many Americans don't realize that the great majority of the military aid Congress approves for Ukraine stays right here in America — replenishing U.S. weapons stockpiles, strengthening our defense industrial base and creating good manufacturing jobs for American workers...
Thursday, April 25, 2024
US Senate passes $95bn in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
The Senate, in a bipartisan super-majority, overwhelmingly voted to advance the measure, which Joe Biden is expected to sign…
Message of Unity
Today, President Biden signed historic legislation providing foreign aid to our allies. His message of unity is simple - whether you're a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, America stands with our allies, opposes tyrants, and leads during critical global events.
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