foreign aid
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Appeals court says Trump can cut $2 billion in foreign aid
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that President Donald Trump can withhold nearly $2 billion in previously approved foreign aid payments, delivering a significant legal win to his administration’s effort to scale back the U.S. Agency for International Development. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia voted 2-1 to overturn a lower court’s order requiring the administration to pay out…
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Senate considers bill to increase efficiency of U.S. food donations to poor countries
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WASHINGTON – Witnesses at a U.S. Senate hearing Thursday said inefficiencies in a food aid program are depriving millions of children in poor countries of essential nutrition. Even farmers in agricultural states say the Food for Peace program needs reforms, according to witnesses at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner…
