They're essentially a shadow foreign aid system that's bigger (and arguably more effective) than official foreign aid.
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As the world's largest foreign aid donor, the United States spends less than 1 percent of our budget on foreign aid.
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FOREIGN AID Liberal-National coalition * The coalition in April trimmed foreign aid from its 2019/20 budget to be worth A$4.04 billion.
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GATES LOBBIED LAWMAKERS ON FOREIGN AID: Bill Gates met with several Congressional leaders on Tuesday to discuss foreign aid and global health issues.
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This relationship is concentrated among less educated people; non–college graduates who think of foreign aid as military spending estimate the foreign aid budget to be twice as high as their peers who do not think of foreign aid in this way.
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Foreign aid hurts real diplomacy A less demonstrable cost of foreign aid is the price we pay for concentrating our diplomatic capital on nation-building.
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Foreign aid: The Hill — Lawmakers and the White House want to change the way the government assists and invests in struggling countries through foreign aid.
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While President Trump's blunt threats to cut foreign aid may seem to only affect people overseas, the reality is that foreign aid promotes American interests and values.
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The problem, however, is that this foreign aid funding isn't just charity: Taking nearly $12 billion out of the foreign aid budget would severely harm US diplomatic efforts.
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Because foreign aid includes a host of programs meant to bolster national security, Republican senators and retired military leaders have urged the Trump administration to stop considering foreign aid cuts.
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"While cutting the foreign aid budget may generate some gaps in resources for people in need, US foreign aid largely does not target the most in need," Glaser told CNN.
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Sneak peek: Trump's planned cuts to foreign aid falls flat in Congress: President Trump's proposed cuts to foreign aid are hitting a wall of resistance on Capitol Hill, with Sen.
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Ranking Foreign Aid Agency Best Practices: New Donors, New Findings reviews foreign aid agencies based on criteria they developed using five categories: transparency, overhead costs, specialization, selectivity, and ineffective channels.
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The President has been a frequent critic of granting foreign aid to Central American countries and has threatened to pull foreign aid to Honduras in response to previous migrant caravans.
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Trump has repeatedly called for cuts to foreign aid in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico, which, in all, obtained some $260 million in foreign aid for fiscal year 2019.
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Polls show that Americans believe the country spends 25 percent of its budget on foreign aid — but the truth is that foreign aid is just 1 percent of the federal budget.
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There is very little evidence that recipient need is the primary driver of foreign aid for the United States and numerous other countries, despite the benevolent connotation of the term foreign aid.
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This is not necessarily a call for more foreign aid.
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Foreign aid would be slashed by 21%, the report said.
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The allocation of foreign aid has always been ethically dubious.
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Much of the latter cut would fall on foreign aid.
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Mr Trump's proposed budget would slash foreign aid more generally.
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By stabilizing vulnerable communities, foreign aid strengthens our national security.
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Significant operational insufficiencies exist in how we deploy foreign aid.
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By almost all of these measures, foreign aid is failing.
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Another example is the continuing failure of providing foreign aid.
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An excellent example of the latter point is foreign aid.
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Paul has long championed reducing foreign aid as a senator.
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No, we don't give away vast sums in foreign aid.
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There was little public support in America for foreign aid.
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Congress failed to pass legislation authorizing foreign aid that year.
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Pakistan's relationship with foreign aid groups has long been troubled.
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The Trump administration has long been hostile to foreign aid.
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Mike Mullen, expressed concern about a declining foreign aid budget.
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Foreign aid plays an important role in countries like Pakistan.
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Foreign aid has a huge impact here at home too.
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Sending additional foreign aid will do nothing to change that.
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"It is shortsighted to slash foreign aid and diplomacy," Sen.
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Trump also threatened foreign aid to Honduras at that time.
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Finally, U.S. foreign aid serves our economic and commercial interests.
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That suggests that big cash grants perhaps should be a huge component of foreign aid spending, and that someday soon, foreign aid spending could be capable of funding transfer programs that end extreme poverty altogether.
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More Mulvaney: White House to propose 'dramatic' cuts to foreign aid: The White House is planning to propose "fairly dramatic" reductions to U.S. foreign aid by the end of March, a top official confirmed Saturday.
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Historically foreign aid budgets have passed through Congress with little debate.
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In terms of the foreign aid budget, they are significantly important.
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Foreign aid workers in the city are planning to leave town.
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He appeared paralysed by the disaster and initially rejected foreign aid.
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Agencies say they haven't received any guidance over foreign aid cuts.
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CHINA is one of the world's largest providers of foreign aid.
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Foreign aid has come in for a bashing in recent months.
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Weber expressed anger about the cuts in research and foreign aid.
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Foreign aid can fundamentally change conditions in sustainable, multi-generational ways.
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Foreign aid helps countries reduce unemployment levels and encourage GDP growth.
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Problems in this regard have dogged US foreign aid for years.
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Eliminating foreign aid, as a few have suggested, would be disastrous.
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They expanded trade, deepened alliances and underwrote billions in foreign aid.
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Palestinians may certainly continue to receive foreign aid and social services.
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Foreign aid is not a hand out; it's a hand up.
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But reforms crucial to keep foreign aid flowing have been patchy.
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But foreign aid is less than 1% of the U.S. budget.
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An impoverished former Portuguese colony, it relies heavily on foreign aid.
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Most significantly, the proposal would cut foreign aid by 21 percent.
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It was one of the most successful foreign aid investments ever.
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It's true that American foreign aid could be delivered more sensibly.
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The dirty little secret of foreign aid is that it's hard.
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Both the overt foreign aid officers of USAID and the more subtle facilitators of foreign aid in the U.S. military are almost without exception hard-working, patriotic Americans intent on doing what is best for their country.
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Jay Inslee has also promised to restore foreign aid to Central America.
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Trump has sought repeatedly to slash funding for foreign aid and diplomacy.
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Foreign aid, he noted, is less than one percent of our budget.
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The cuts would particularly target the Environmental Protection Agency and foreign aid.
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Foreign aid has subsidized policies that have destroyed developing countries' export sectors.
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But it said on Monday it would accept foreign aid for Sulawesi.
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Foreign aid is not a regular topic of conversation for most Americans.
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The proposal shocked many in the global health and foreign aid world.
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Cuts to foreign aid would place a greater burden on our military.
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Foreign aid plummeted after a 2009 coup sparked bitter political street fighting.
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Desperately reliant on foreign aid, the Ukrainian government had limited wiggle room.
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The proposed cuts to such foreign-aid programs total some $6.6 billion.
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In 2001, the Bush administration cut about $600 million in foreign aid.
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Properly designed and directed, U.S foreign aid can support U.S. national interests.
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When it comes to foreign aid, this country is practically singing Kumbaya.
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Each year, the United States spends over $35 billion on foreign aid.
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A generation ago, foreign aid made up most of our government's budget.
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But foreign aid is not just about helping people in poor countries.
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Rejecting President Trump's cuts to foreign aid is a critical first step.
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Foreign aid to promote health and human development has also proven underwhelming.
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Popular calls to cut waste and foreign aid would save little money.
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The Treasury Department oversees foreign aid payments, but Mnuchin's answer was underwhelming.
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Foreign aid makes up around one-third of the country's national budget.
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Officials have cited Trump's ideological objections to foreign aid, which were irrelevant once Congress appropriated the funds and then refused the Trump administration's follow up attempt to try to cut billions in foreign aid to a number of countries.
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Unlike civilian programs funded through the State Department and foreign operations budget, military-run foreign aid programs are not fully reported either to the foreign assistance "Dashboard" — a public website of all U.S. foreign aid funding — or to Congress.
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He also supported the Reagan administration's so-called Mexico City policy, which blocks foreign aid to organizations that provide abortion counseling or referrals, and crafted his own amendment in 1981 to ban foreign aid for abortion-related biomedical research.
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Thus, as we'll learn in these hearings: After expressing skepticism of foreign aid and concern about foreign corruption on the campaign trail, President Trump outraged the bureaucracy by acting skeptically about foreign aid and expressing concerns about foreign corruption.
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Every presidential administration since the 22016s has initiated efforts to reorganize foreign aid.
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Foreign aid, on which many African countries depend, often leads to more emissions.
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There's plenty more in the US foreign aid system in need of reform.
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Bush, however, contends that providing substantial foreign aid is a national security issue.
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It spends about 11 billion pounds ($14.6 billion) on foreign aid each year.
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Foreign aid can be transformative in ways other foreign policy tools are not.
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Congo's government reacted by saying it would reject foreign aid for the poll.
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The senator said U.S. foreign aid to Central American countries is not charity.
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This announcement will likely disappoint and alarm many in the foreign aid industry.
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Countries that receive U.S. foreign aid must be held to similarly high standards.
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Trump's 28503 budget cut U.S. diplomatic and foreign aid spending about $22019 billion.
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The issue of foreign aid, however, could cause friction between Trump and Sisi.
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America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
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The speech marked Trump's latest threat to rescind foreign aid for another country.
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Years of bloated foreign aid budgets have produced high salaries, destroying local industries.
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So why say that the Ukrainian foreign aid was conditioned on political investigations?
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When we served in Congress, foreign aid had support among Republicans and Democrats.
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He would cut foreign aid and other non-defense programs by $54 billion.
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Foreign aid overseen by the State Department would be cut by nearly 21%.
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Foreign aid to Haiti's public coffers, which leapt after 2010, halved last year.
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Foreign aid to Haiti's public coffers, which leapt after 153, halved last year.
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Even after other foreign aid was restored, the money for Ukraine remained blocked.
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Foreign aid to Haiti's public coffers, which leapt after 2010, halved last year.
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"We have statements out of Washington about significant reductions in foreign aid," Gen.
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It's true that Barack Obama and other presidents withheld or froze foreign aid.
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The terrorism designation means that restrictions remain on foreign aid and military sales.
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And Trump has pushed them despite the evidence that foreign aid actually works.
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" Amnesty International called the cuts to foreign aid "shameful" and predicted "global consequences.
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Spending on immigrants and foreign aid are a rounding error in the budget.
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The argument that cutting foreign aid puts "America first" just doesn't add up.
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Investment in such groups should focus on reducing their dependence on foreign aid.
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They depend on foreign aid that has been severely restricted since Aug. 25.
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The White House proposed slashing the budget for foreign aid by a third.
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Politics and foreign aid go hand in hand, and most aid goes to the most politically salient issues — so in Europe, stemming mass migration — and then the foreign aid structure today is just so risk-averse that it hampers its effectiveness.
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Foreign aid to other countries, including Afghanistan, El Salvador, and Honduras, they said, has also been paused or canceled by the administration, though House Democrats pointed out that foreign aid holds — including by the Trump administration — are typically announced publicly.
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Congress has softened some of the president's previous demands to reduce U.S. foreign aid.
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The US is set to spend $36 billion total on foreign aid in 2017.
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That is about a third of rich countries' total foreign aid for health care.
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There was a long answer about corruption and a long answer about foreign aid.
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Werman: And Republicans, how do they feel about these proposed cuts to foreign aid?
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"The economy is based on foreign aid," says Samer Tawil, a former economy minister.
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His administration has adopted what it describes as a feminist policy toward foreign aid.
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WHEN FOREIGN aid enters developing countries, it is welcomed with handshakes and ribbon-cutting.
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Both the government and foreign aid agencies are beginning to focus on food processing.
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China has only occasionally provided details of its foreign aid program in recent years.
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And then there's the dishonesty and cherry-picking of the pro-foreign aid crowd.
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Helping people out of poverty and protecting foreign-aid only helps protect our interest.
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The US also provides $440 million per year in foreign aid to the Palestinians.
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Here's a quick list of what they need to know about foreign aid. 1.
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Beijing's secrecy, AidData found, masks a far larger foreign aid footprint than previously estimated.
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The South would also require years and massive foreign aid to rebuild and stabilize.
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Their rulers often highlight their sizable foreign aid budget and their women's rights efforts.
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Earlier this year, the administration proposed around 33 percent cuts to foreign aid funding.
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Today, eleven of America's top fifteen trading partners are former recipients of foreign aid.
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President Trump isn't a big fan of foreign aid: never has been, still isn't.
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It's sad that we can't talk about diplomacy, about foreign aid, about soft power.
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It is unforeseeable that the US will cut off foreign aid to those countries.
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Foreign aid programs still only account for less than one percent of annual spending.
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Somaliland has managed to secure an area the size of Missouri without foreign aid.
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Trump's budget proposes steep cuts to foreign aid, which has sparked concerns among lawmakers.
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That disregard extends to women in countries that receive our foreign aid as well.
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By contrast, Mr. Trump is cutting back on America's already modest foreign aid budget.
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The station is a major recipient of American foreign aid, particularly through advertising expenditures.
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Foreign aid can sustain the government, even as its control of the country shrinks.
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That's more than double the total foreign aid provided by all national governments combined.
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Reuters: Biden says he would withhold foreign aid if countries discriminate against LGBTQ people.
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It united foreign-aid-favoring liberals and evangelical conservatives with ties to missionary hospitals.
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Approximately what percentage of the United States federal budget is spent on foreign aid?
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Almost every village we passed carried the visible stamp of the foreign aid industry.
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Last week, a top Trump administration official announced plans to significantly cut foreign aid.
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It now seems Trump was using American foreign aid to threaten the Ukrainian President.
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By slashing our foreign aid budget, we risk undoing 30 years of remarkable progress.
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Trump has previously suggested using foreign aid as leverage in dealing with other countries.
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These relationships, complete with embassies, trade agreements and foreign aid, strengthen Taiwan's effective sovereignty.
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"We've suffered from bureaucracy in the decision making process for foreign aid," Hassan said.
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In August, the Trump administration eyed canceling billions of dollars in foreign aid funding.
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He said in March he wanted to boost defense spending and slash foreign aid.
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Ghani's first job in the new administration was to coördinate and track foreign aid.
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Lead or follow The Mexico City policy isn't Trump's only foray into foreign aid.
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Trump's focus on his "America First" agenda has meant fewer funds for foreign aid.
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Some of the parts people do understand, such as foreign aid, are fairly unpopular.
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There are a lot of organizations that spend time trying to discuss foreign aid to the US general public and it's always difficult because generally the perceptions are that foreign aid is 20 percent of the federal budget when it's actually 1 percent.
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Trump's request to keep foreign aid flat for the Eastern European country comes amid speculation on Capitol Hill that he would once again propose deep foreign aid cuts, including cuts to State Department funds that Ukraine has used to fend off Russian aggression.
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Foreign Aid: The Wall Street Journal — Trump repeated a vaguely detailed idea Wednesday for "radical" change to U.S. foreign aid programs, which he said would allow the government to withhold funds to unnamed countries through which illegal immigrants arrive in the United States.
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On the subject of continued foreign aid, even if a political solution is reached between the Afghan government and the Taliban, and that is a big if, the problems of governance and slow economic growth will not be solved by sending foreign aid.
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We also believe that American foreign aid dollars should promote America&aposs interest and values.
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Indeed, the U.S. could more prominently support human rights in its overall foreign aid programs.
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It has stood by the manifesto commitment to spend 0.7% of GDP on foreign aid.
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The administration is still trying to cut foreign aid, but it has been consistently thwarted.
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The Trump administration's latest budget again proposes cuts to funding for US foreign aid programs.
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Is that bad news for countries that are actually in need of that foreign aid?
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And a turn to insularity in many rich countries means foreign aid is increasingly criticised.
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Our federal government blowing 28% of its annual budget on foreign aid to undeserving foreigners!
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The Sun demanded a few months ago: "It's time to end the foreign aid fiasco".
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Foreign aid The Pew report also surveyed what the U.S. should do for other countries.
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C., have already raised concerns about the State cuts and reduction in foreign aid money.
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The money we spend on foreign aid is a long-term investment in Americans themselves.
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This elevated authority allows the foreign aid agenda to dominate the work of an embassy.
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This misperception, together with some skepticism about aid effectiveness, may skew opinions on foreign aid.
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A senior administration official told reporters the budget would cut foreign aid by $13 billion.
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Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales said on Wednesday his government rejected constraints placed on foreign aid.
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House Democrats allege Trump withheld foreign aid in return for the investigation into the Bidens.
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Other former officials said foreign aid is only one component of a potential policy solution.
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It's proof that our foreign aid dollars are a smart investment that deliver real results.
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Cuts to foreign aid jeopardize hard-won gains and threaten American safety, values, and leadership.
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Taking an ax to foreign aid is an easy win the Trump team should take.
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Haitian Self-Determination No country was ever lifted out of poverty by just foreign aid.
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Trump's plans to gut funding for international development, foreign aid and diplomacy are woefully misguided.
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On Monday, the city of 40,000 received its first shipment of foreign aid since October.
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And, in some cases, how much foreign aid is the U.S. sending to the country?
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He doesn't believe in foreign aidOn the third front, Trump has incessantly attacked foreign aid.
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The Trump administration's proposal to reduce foreign aid is a step in the right direction.
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Trump exuded on her trip and the Trump administration's hard-edge approach to foreign aid.
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Moscow cannot compete with American foreign aid or China's sweeping investment efforts on the continent.
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Togo has a weak economy and is dependent on foreign aid, according to the BBC.
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The big picture: Trump has been itching to limit foreign aid spending, per the NYT.
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Is it harsh to call the Trump tax plan a $700 billion foreign aid program?
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Trump on Monday denied that he threatened to hold back foreign aid to pressure Ukraine.
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The administration's budget proposal has suggested slashing foreign aid in general while increasing defense spending.
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Proponents and critics alike of U.S. foreign aid have hoped to see recipient countries take ownership of their health programs; building on the strong foundation of lifesaving foreign aid and investing their own domestic resources to help their people achieve health and well-being.
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The US, meanwhile, spends well under the 0.7% target set by the OECD on foreign aid.
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Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales said on Wednesday his government dismissed threatened constraints placed on foreign aid.
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The president's attempt to cut foreign aid in this year's budget was ultimately rebuffed by lawmakers.
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The complaint also notes that foreign aid to Ukraine had been suspended around the same time.
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In 2017, the Department of Defense spent a total of approximately $13 billion in foreign aid.
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An uncertain future It appears Trump may have tied his solicitation of Ukraine to foreign aid.
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Bermeo: The United States spends less than two-tenths of 1% of GDP on foreign aid.
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Many people probably believe that foreign aid, particularly humanitarian assistance, is largely driven by recipient need.
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IN 2015 Britain gave away £12.1bn ($18.5bn) in foreign aid, more than any country bar America.
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In some places, the refugees boost local businesses and act as a magnet for foreign aid.
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The United States is the world's largest giver in the world, by far, of foreign aid.
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The Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016, however, was able to beat the odds.
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And third, the public vastly overestimates how much money the U.S. government spends on foreign aid.
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This presents a unique opportunity to make foreign aid a more effective tool of foreign policy.
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Ultimately, yes, there is still unfinished business on foreign aid reform generally, and USAID reform specifically.
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Mr. Gates has expressed worries about President Trump's foreign aid policies and his style of communication.
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Trump said trade barriers must come down since the US sends substantial foreign aid to Nigeria.
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They may offer foreign aid, military training, and technology transfers in exchange for strengthened, restrictionist borders.
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Here are some highlights of that forthcoming report — 2628 recommendations to reform U.S. foreign aid: 28500.
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Today, most developed countries — including the U.S. — have incorporated climate change into all foreign aid spending.
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Lowey is the top Democrat on the House subcommittee that oversees U.S. diplomacy and foreign aid.
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At the same time, President Trump has cut hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid.
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In the House, he established a strong record on human rights, foreign aid and environmental conservation.
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The State Department and its foreign aid programs account for 1 percent of the overall budget.
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"Nobody is entitled to America's foreign aid," Mr. Kushner told The New York Times on Thursday.
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Foreign aid underwrote the school system, so the textbook business jump-started the book publishing industry.
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Democrats argue that Trump abused his power by withholding foreign aid for his personal political benefit.
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Trump suggested on Wednesday that the U.S. could pull foreign aid from countries that do so.
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He also said that "foreign aid does not cure corruption," but rather "aids and abets" corruption.
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Most of the American foreign aid to Mexico is provided under the aegis of the initiative.
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It's not known how, if at all, the foreign aid was related to the Biden matter.
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It's not known how, if at all, the foreign aid was related to the Biden matter.
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The United States is reshaping how it uses foreign aid in order to compete with China.
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His father, Alden Work Boyd, was a foreign aid officer and New York department store executive.
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They're the two issues that go to the core of how President Trump approaches foreign aid.
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For example, people have a vastly exaggerated view of how much we spend on foreign aid.
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The Trump administration has suggested cutting the State Department's budget for foreign aid by 37 percent.
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Experts have argued that US foreign aid has helped stem violence in the Central American country.
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In many countries, remittances contribute to more than double of all sources of foreign aid combined.
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The guidance was mandated by the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act (FATAA), sponsored by Rep.
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After all, there's nothing wrong with conditioning foreign aid on compliance with established foreign policy goals.
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Before meeting the Australian foreign minister, he read the Australian government's white paper on foreign aid.
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More than half the respondents thought the United States was spending too much on foreign aid.
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White House wants to slash billions from grants, foreign aid: The White House is proposing $17 billion in spending cuts from levels Congress approved in 2016, focusing on medical research grants, scientific research grants, education and foreign aid, according to a document obtained by The Hill.
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The potential gains from open borders dwarf those of, say, completely free trade, let alone foreign aid.
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President Trump signaled his intention to slash foreign aid in his June 2015 speech announcing his candidacy.
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His budget proposes to cut funding to the State Department and spending on foreign aid by 28%.
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Bermeo spoke with The World's Marco Werman about what the proposed cuts to foreign aid might mean.
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Werman: Without the cuts, how does the current US foreign aid spending compare to other wealthy countries?
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And it has just boosted foreign aid in order to counter lavish Chinese investment abroad (see article).
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The White House wants the State Department and foreign-aid budgets to bear much of the burden.
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Gillard said foreign aid was also meagre, with only three percent of overseas assistance going towards education.
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Canada though spends much less of its gross domestic product on foreign aid than Norway and Ireland.
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So raising taxes or issuing bonds are unlikely to be realistic alternatives if foreign aid is cut.
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It also calls for the repeal of the Helms amendment, which bans foreign aid from funding abortion.
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The government says it welcomes the foreign aid groups who provide most of South Sudan's public services.
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Widodo has welcomed foreign aid, with the EU, China, and the U.S. among those already pledging assistance.
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Foreign aid agencies already feed many Zimbabweans who would otherwise starve—in some years, millions of them.
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USAID, the American foreign aid agency, made news in October by testing a nutrition program against cash.
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Trump threatens outrageous things — like closing the southern border or cutting off foreign aid — and nothing happens.
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While this figure was a decrease of $670 million from fiscal 2016, foreign aid is hardly inexpensive.
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Critics are skeptical because his budget questions the "less than 1 percent" and associated foreign aid orthodoxy.
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Since money is fungible, US foreign aid to the PA in effect subsidizes the PA terrorist stipends.
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The recently leaked State Department budget suggests how the new administration seeks to cut direct foreign aid.
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Trump also proposed slashing foreign aid significantly when he first rolled out his budget proposals in February.
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We don't spend that much money on diplomacy or foreign aid in the grand scheme of things.
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A striking feature of the North's economic decline is the quantities of foreign aid that accompanied it.
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What have you thought in terms of what Washington is thinking these days about foreign aid missions?
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Despite an unprecedented volume of foreign aid, Palestinian society remains in a state of paralysis and dysfunction.
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They are demanding elections, freedom for jailed activists, foreign aid, and autonomy for the opposition-led legislature.
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The Trump administration meanwhile talks about reducing the foreign aid budget, which includes our international food programs.
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Despite the Trump administration's general skepticism of foreign aid, the United States has largely answered the call.
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This correspondent was granted permission, but other foreign aid workers and journalists complain they are turned back.
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For example, the foreign aid budget is proposed by the president but must be approved by Congress.
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These programs are part of a paradigm shift in the way the United States provides foreign aid.
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Foreign aid The funding fight comes as Trump has threatened to cut off aid to several countries.
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This represents less than 85033 percent of the total annual U.S. foreign aid budget and less than .
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Worse than ineffective, many have long suspected that U.S. foreign aid inadvertently ends up supporting corrupt regimes.
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This is a cheap investment, considering foreign aid represents about 1 percent of the U.S. federal budget.
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Hodeidah is the point of entry for around 70% of the country's food imports and foreign aid.
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Israel is one of the biggest recipients of U.S. foreign aid, according to the Congressional Research Service.
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The U.S. has maintained overwhelming military power and influence, while providing foreign aid and subsidizing global trade.
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Trump has long been a skeptic of foreign aid, claiming the US is being taken advantage of.
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The Trump administration plans to merge the two organizations while cutting foreign aid, according to news reports.
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For Europe and Asia, it could rewrite the rules of modern alliances, trade deals, and foreign aid.
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Scarborough said foreign aid is a valuable source of soft power and serves a vital humanitarian purpose.
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In Trump's first two years in office, the administration significantly reeled back foreign aid to those countries.
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Bill Gates met with several Congressional leaders on Tuesday to discuss foreign aid and global health issues.
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The budget will also include details about Trump's proposals to cut foreign aid and boost military spending.
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And yet, despite the staggering foreign aid subsidies it has received, the economy's performance has been dismal.
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Of course, there are limits to what even the world's richest country can spend on foreign aid.
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Trump is reportedly seeking major cuts to the EPA's climate change programs and foreign aid through State.
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As a description of using foreign aid as a lever in foreign policy, Mr. Mulvaney was correct.
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There is a final irony in juxtaposing President Trump's two calls for foreign aid reductions this week.
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Wealthy states are increasingly allocating resources, including foreign aid, to forward their own interests through development promotion.
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The European Union is the world's most generous foreign aid donor and the leader in global trade.
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The United States must revisit its foreign aid program to support Pakistan in reaching its full potential.
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Our foreign aid has dropped drastically and is at levels far below what's required, given the challenges.
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Foreign aid was desperately needed, but penetrating the secretive society was nearly impossible for Christian aid groups.
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The administration held up foreign aid to Northern Triangle countries in March 2019 and Afghanistan last September.
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As numerous witnesses have testified, temporary holds on foreign aid occur fairly frequently for many different reasons.
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The Swapo-led government has also depended greatly on foreign aid, especially from its biggest donor, Germany.
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Democrats allege Trump withheld foreign aid to Ukraine until the country launched an investigation into the Bidens.
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At that meeting, Trump discussed with his key advisers whether to release the foreign aid to Ukraine.
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Spending on environmental protection, medical research, job training, foreign aid and safety net programs would be cut.
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Billions of dollars would go to the Pentagon, while foreign aid and poverty programs face deep cuts.
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Editorial One of America's greatest contributions to international peace resulted from a historic investment in foreign aid.
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Some have also questioned whether Trump used foreign aid to Ukraine as leverage in the conversation. Sen.
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But the country is still among the world's 25 poorest and is heavily reliant on foreign aid.
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It comes as Trump has proposed slashing the U.S. foreign aid and diplomacy budget by 28 percent.
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Previous presidents have threatened to cut foreign aid, too, often to punish countries for violating human rights.
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Foreign aid and the State Department The Trump administration, led by Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, has made clear that the State Department will experience wholesale budget cuts in their first budget, with a target squarely on foreign aid sent abroad by the United States.
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If anything, some small countries are very proud of the amount of money that they spend on foreign aid and believe that that gives them some moral leadership authority over other countries like the United States, which spend a much smaller proportion of our GDP on foreign aid.
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But Thrush and Davenport and other reporters are now offering more details about the budget outline to come, including some deep cuts: The $3 billion in annual foreign aid funding for Israel will be left untouched, according to Thrush and Davenport, despite the other huge cuts to foreign aid.
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Foreign Policy first reported the details of the White House's proposal to dramatically reduce spending on foreign aid.
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The total annual spending for the State Department and foreign aid is about $50 billion, according to Reuters.
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Malawi, a lakeside southern African nation, depends heavily on foreign aid and is frequently beset by worsening droughts.
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State-owned enterprises (SOEs) employ about 145,000 people and provide about half of government revenue, excluding foreign aid.
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"You don't hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative," said GOP Sen.
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Incoming foreign aid, from the salaries of consultants to the fees collected by subcontractors, is often tax-exempt.
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A UN base was attacked; foreign aid workers were beaten and raped when troops stormed a hotel compound.
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The administration also tried to use rescissions to cut foreign aid last year, but lawmakers thwarted that plan.
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It also calls for more trade agreements and says foreign aid programs should make recipient countries self-sufficient.
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Two foreign aid workers with the International Assistance Mission were killed in the city of Herat in 2014.
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The first bill, the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act, has already gotten halfway to President Obama's desk.
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Bhutan is the largest beneficiary of Indian foreign aid and India holds significant sway over its foreign policy.
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In the pecking order of American employees at an embassy, foreign aid officers have leapfrogged to the front.
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Thousands of foreign aid workers rushed into Haiti after the earthquake there leveled Port-Au-Prince, the capital.
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However, he said he would not take foreign aid if it meant changing his position against gay marriage.
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Over the last decade, foreign aid and NGOs have increased efforts to eliminate the disease in east Africa.
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It said the Afghan government should not cooperate with sending people back, despite its dependence on foreign aid.
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Foreign aid, investments, and billions of tourism revenue are some of the cost of homophobia, the report finds.
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Americans deserve such reforms to ensure foreign aid does all it can to advance their interests and security.
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Half of the country (21625%) is opposed while a roughly equal share (2900%) would support increasing foreign aid.
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Whether it's NATO, the UN or our generous direct foreign aid program, our government — the taxpayers — give enough.
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The White House is reportedly weighing a proposal to tie foreign aid to how countries treat religious minorities.
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The Wakandan government seems to have cut off any economic contact with foreigners, like foreign aid or immigration.
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The designation results in additional financial sanctions, restrictions on foreign aid, and bans on defense exports and sales.
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Trump has promised to cut off foreign aid to Honduras and other countries associated with the migrant group.
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Foreign aid is beginning to arrive, as photographs emerging from the area underscore the devastation (The Associated Press).
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He had a foreign student ID I believe while he went to Columbia University, applied for foreign aid.
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By voting for the resolution, countries were not doing anything that violated the terms of their foreign aid.
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The total foreign aid budget per year is about $19703 billion, up dramatically from $35 billion in 2014.
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Trump's budget would reportedly cut State funding by 37 percent, making deep reductions in spending on foreign aid.
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Polling shows that Americans believe we spend upwards of 6900 percent of the federal budget on foreign aid.
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Under the Helms Amendment, American foreign aid cannot be used for abortion as a method of family planning.
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But Gates is concerned about the impact if the U.S. follows through on plans to cut foreign aid.
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It is time for a paradigm shift in the manner in which the United States administers foreign aid.
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Scheer had promised to end a national carbon tax and cut government spending, including foreign aid, by 25%.
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The Palestinian leadership uses a major chunk of foreign aid money to directly fund and indirectly support terrorism.
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And it comes as the administration considers canceling nearly $3 billion in foreign aid projects around the world.
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If it's more trade and foreign aid for Central America, that's a solution for the too-long term.
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Some of the money to pay for all this will come from a 25% reduction in foreign aid.
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The proposal would direct foreign aid to help clean up polluted rivers that contribute debris to the ocean.
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He pounded on the fact that the millions of dollars in foreign aid was eventually sent to Ukraine.
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President Trump's proposed cuts to foreign aid are hitting a wall of resistance on Capitol Hill, with Sen.
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And because Nicaragua is a major beneficiary of foreign aid, donor countries should demand government transparency and accountability.
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It has tried diplomacy and foreign aid, imposed political reforms and peacekeepers, launched cruise missiles and outright occupations.
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Trump has so far dismissed foreign aid, proposing a 31 percent cut to USAID in his budget blueprint.
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In addition, reduced government revenues will make it more difficult to finance Putin's foreign aid and defense programs.
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One would focus on the whistleblower complaint and Trump's efforts to solicit foreign aid in the 2020 election.
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The actual number for foreign aid is about 1 percent of the budget, or $36.6 billion in 2017.
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US foreign aid to support reproductive health worldwide is too vulnerable to the whims of the American electorate.
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Take the case of foreign aid to Palestine, where the U.S. helps provide basic humanitarian assistance for refugees.
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President Donald Trump took to Twitter to threaten Honduras with foreign aid cuts if the migrants aren't stopped.
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Yet this comes as President Donald Trump has vowed to slash foreign aid and nationalism spreads through Europe.
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Foreign aid groups are now scaling up to help Bangladesh cope with a humanitarian disaster of biblical proportions.
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Gangs appear to strike indiscriminately, with victims ranging from Haitian schoolchidren, lawmakers and businessmen to foreign aid workers.
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OPIC's expansion into venture capital comes during an administration that has tried to cut back on foreign aid.
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This is an opportunity to look at how countries and international organizations disburse foreign aid, as most Americans have never considered just how the United States, the largest bilateral foreign aid donor, allocates its funds across recipients or what factors drive decisions to give assistance to one country over another.
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Unlike in years past, when the administration had to battle Congress on foreign aid, since 2013, Republicans and Democrats in both houses have worked together in support of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, clean water and sanitation, global agriculture and food security, reliable power access, and foreign aid transparency and accountability.
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The cuts to various foreign aid programs will allow money to be spent on the needs of Americans, Sen.
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We help governments with their foreign aid programs, because many of them support family planning in third world countries.
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"We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them," he wrote.
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Trump has announced budget cuts of 28% to the State Department and a 38% reduction in foreign aid spending.
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Once Cooper's testimony began, she provided a very technical readout of how foreign aid is disbursed, according to lawmakers.
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The source said $143 million would be released in targeted foreign aid, a partial reinstatement of the initial freeze.
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Mulvaney said the budget would protect the "core diplomatic function" of the department but would slash foreign aid spending.
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For the United States, this appears to be particularly true of net foreign aid and even of food aid.
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Propped up by donations and foreign aid, orphanages are a lucrative business in many parts of the developing world.
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But likely targets include the Environmental Protection Agency, foreign aid, and programs to address climate change, according to Science.
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Trump has said he wants to cut the budgets for foreign aid and the State Department by a third.
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In fact, their voluntary transfer of money triples the sum of foreign aid budgets to the same developing economies.
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But international efforts to help are gearing up, after the government overcame a traditional reluctance to take foreign aid.
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The ATCA empowers Americans to sue foreign aid recipients in U.S. courts over alleged complicity in "acts of war".
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President Nicolas Maduro, who has the support of the military, has consistently rejected letting foreign aid into the country.
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Dependent almost entirely on foreign aid, Afghan security forces are struggling to secure the country amid a rising insurgency.
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In 2011, China put its total foreign aid over the past six decades at 256.29 billion yuan ($40.51 billion).
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Policy experts hope that the Senate will remain true to recent bipartisan calls for the importance of foreign aid.
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The blueprint calls for steep cuts to social safety net programs, foreign aid and efforts to combat climate change.
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Applying tariffs on Mexican goods and cutting foreign aid are also "options," his campaign has said on his website.
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But he is concerned by President Donald Trump's proposed fiscal budget for 2018, which diminishes foreign aid by 31%.
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Trump will purportedly seek major cuts to the EPA's climate change programs and foreign aid through the State Department.
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Now is not the time to cut back on our support for foreign aid, but to make it better.
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The designation forces foreign aid restrictions, a ban on weapons exports and financial sanctions to go in to effect.
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Although down since most international troops withdrew in 2014, foreign aid still accounts for 54 percent of the budget.
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In 2012 Western countries showered $1.17 billion on it, and foreign aid accounted for 5.33% of gross national income.
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Aid-watchers, who row bitterly over whether the world needs more foreign aid or less, mostly agree with them.
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The Trump administration also sought to cut foreign aid programs aimed at rooting out corruption in places like Ukraine.
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But Cha pointed out that the regime's history of misappropriating foreign aid has made the public wary of contributing.
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Foreign aid programs are often strongly bipartisan as members with divergent worldviews can support them based on various rationales.
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Journalists stalked the carpet, photographing and interviewing Palestinians and a handful of foreign aid workers who live in Gaza.
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Members of Congress should denounce these crimes and condition U.S. foreign aid on efforts to bring perpetrators to justice.
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" This same general reminded lawmakers that assistance to Central America "should be viewed as an investment, not foreign aid.
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Islamist insurgents targeted judges, prosecutors and other government officials as well as journalists and Afghan and foreign aid workers.
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Most of the government's budget depends on foreign aid, and the Taliban still control large swaths of the country.
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The Trump administration has called for reducing foreign aid in recent years, but Congress has largely ignored those requests.
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The Trump administration has been extremely critical of the costs of foreign aid, peacekeeping missions, and refugee resettlement/response.
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As the US looks to pare down its foreign aid budget, Turkey could become China's major challenger in Africa.
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Foreign aid under these conditions weakened Haiti because it severed the sovereign relationship between elected leaders and the people.
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The deal would have the Ukrainians announce the investigations and Washington release the hold placed on the foreign aid.
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I saw firsthand how clinics funded by foreign aid are often the only source of health care for women.
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Still, proposed cuts to foreign aid, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
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Last month, troops loyal to President Salva Kiir raided a compound housing foreign aid workers in the capital Juba.
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Indeed, majorities thought we were spending too much in only two areas: foreign aid and welfare — using that word.
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Trump used her high profile to spotlight the work the Trump administration is doing to assist with foreign aid.
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Plenty of people in Washington like the idea of cutting the foreign aid budget, or perhaps eliminating it altogether.
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It means generously funding foreign aid for health programs that have saved hundreds of thousands, even millions of lives.
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But it's very easy: In 10 years, if we just stopped giving Mexico foreign aid, we'd pay for it.
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The bank, which has focused on combating climate change and promoting foreign aid, has clashed with the Trump administration.
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Afghanistan uses foreign aid not just to pay basic expenses but also for its war against the resurgent Taliban.
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In addition, the administration is pursuing immigration and foreign aid policies that belie its stated defense of religious rights.
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President Jimmy Morales of Guatemala dismissed Mr. Trump's threats, telling reporters that he rejected constraints placed on foreign aid.
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Last week Trump backed down from his controversial threat to cut billions of dollars in unused foreign aid funding.
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He believed in international engagement and funding U.S. foreign aid; he disdained congressmen who bragged about not having passports.
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"Withholding foreign aid in order to pressure a foreign government to take such steps would be wrong," he said.
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Plain and simple, foreign aid works: Eleven of our top fifteen trading partners were once recipients of U.S. assistance.
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Juba announced plans in March to charge each foreign aid worker $10,000 per annual permit but later dropped them.
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Estimates in the projected budget include about 800 million dinars in foreign aid, hardly changed from the 2019 budget.
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Kerala's Finance Minister Thomas Isaac said on Twitter the central government should compensate the state for refusing foreign aid.
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Preserving current foreign aid funding — only one-fifth of 1 percent of U.S. GDP — is only the first step.
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Nor will it lead to significant savings: foreign aid makes up less than 1 percent of the U.S. budget.
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I recently testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee urging Washington to not cut foreign aid to Central America.
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To care for all this lawn, we spend $40 billion annually, more than we spend in direct foreign aid.
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In Liberia, for example, rumors spread that the government had manufactured the Ebola crisis to get more foreign aid.
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Habitually, North Korea seeks to escape from the international "sticks," and to pocket the material "carrots" in foreign aid.
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Trump has denied that he used the foreign aid as leverage, though he admitted to withholding money from Ukraine.
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Massive cuts in foreign aid may hobble a Foreign Service already depleted by deep cuts during Tillerson's disastrous tenure.
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Not so long ago, Denmark prided itself on its humanism, generous foreign aid budget and welcoming attitude toward foreigners.
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President Nicolas Maduro said he will close Venezuela's border with Brazil in a bid to stop foreign aid deliveries.
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Critics say Trump has "weaponized" foreign aid to pursue specific political objectives, and that it has had little success.
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President Donald Trump has proposed cuts to domestic programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, foreign aid and general science.
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"I think the president was acting on a sincere, longly held view and skepticism of foreign aid," he said.
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That is why cutting foreign aid is so devastating for the fight against poverty and for our national security.
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The US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US government's main foreign aid organization, has started doing something radical.
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Mr. Maduro was determined to keep foreign aid out of his country, and the Venezuelan opposition saw an opportunity.
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Taken together, Mueller's findings suggest Trump's family and aides were much more receptive to foreign aid than Barr suggested.
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House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey told VICE News that if the president threatened to hold back foreign aid if Zelensky didn't honor his request, it would not only be a violation of the oath of office, but a violation of the separation of powers, since Congress makes foreign aid funding decisions.
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The result is a poverty gap that, while still intimidating, is less than half as large as foreign aid transfers.
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The island also hosts a controversial detention center housing asylum seekers on behalf of Australia, its biggest foreign aid donor.
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Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen.
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Sarah Bermeo: This administration and each budget that it has sent to Congress has proposed dramatic cuts to foreign aid.
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In a highly cited study, the economists Alberto Alesina and David Dollar explore patterns with the allocation of foreign aid.
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Of the remaining 45%, the only area that majorities of poll respondents in both parties support cutting is foreign aid.
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"India makes its participation contingent on receiving billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid from developed countries," Trump said.
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Critics of foreign aid often charge that it weakens the countries that receive it, by undermining their economies and governance.
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Many members of Congress, including Republicans, strongly object to his plans to slash the State Department and foreign aid budgets.
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Malawi is dependent on foreign aid and is frequently beset by drought which threatens the lives of thousands of people.
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Israel would probably withhold the tax revenue on which the PA depends, and some Western countries might suspend foreign aid.
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America's criminal-justice system has a big influence globally, with legal training often forming part of its foreign-aid efforts.
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Late last year U.S. Vice President Mike Pence accused China of ensnaring tiny island nations in foreign aid "debt traps".
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Moving forward, we are only going to give foreign aid to those who respect us and, frankly, are our friends.
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Cambodia relies on foreign aid and NGOs; to keep funds flowing, he must maintain at least a veneer of democracy.
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Department of Labor (2900) — $220006 billion (approximately 2202 percent of the federal budget) Foreign aid spending (2628) — $28500 billion (approximately .
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When Truman wanted Congress to approve a $400 million economic and foreign aid package for Greece and Turkey, Republican Sen.
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India makes its participation contingent on receiving billions and billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid from developed countries.
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Trump's 2018 budget also would decrease foreign aid spending, slash money going to food stamps and cut billions from welfare.
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"Our goal was to help end the civil war and direct more US foreign aid to the nation," McCafferty said.
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These payments account for seven percent of the total PA budget and 85033 percent of the foreign aid it receives.
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The Global Food Security Act, initially signed into law in 28503, funds foreign aid programs that focus on ending hunger.
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Tensions on Venezuela's border with Brazil have risen as Maduro loyalists have blocked foreign aid from coming into the country.
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This is exactly the direction our country should be heading in its foreign policy and use of its foreign aid.
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The developing world's decreased reliance on foreign aid is encouraging, but the role for smart U.S. government investment still remains.
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The Brookings Institution holds an event titled "A blueprint for maximizing the impact of U.S. foreign aid" at 21625 a.m.
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Something you all asked me was, 'what are you doing with the foreign aid, since we absolutely gutted it, right'?
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The interest of the Trump administration in reforming America's foreign aid programs is an opportunity that should not be squandered.
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With both national and local budgets stretched, Ormoc's best hope may lie with foreign aid donors like Japan, he added.
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He challenged the military on Friday to allow foreign aid into the economically strapped country if and when it comes.
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This underpins the Afghanistan National Peace and Development Framework, our five-year blueprint for ending Afghan dependence on foreign aid.
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Scores of foreign aid workers and experts have arrived and 14,000 security personnel were keeping order, with only sporadic looting.
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American foreign aid is vital to pursing U.S. foreign policy, to supporting allies, to strengthening democracy, to providing humanitarian assistance.
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His notably moderate approach to border security, supporting increased foreign aid to bolster education and human rights in Central America.
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But both lack of opportunity and lack of security are long-term problems that foreign aid can theoretically help solve.
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But Afghans now fear the decision could push the country, almost entirely dependent on foreign aid, past the tipping point.
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In 1981, he crafted the Biden amendment to ban the use of foreign aid for biomedical research related to abortion.
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Inaccurate beliefs on this question matter, because Americans often support cuts to foreign aid when asked to evaluate spending priorities.
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But it has long been frustrated that Congress provides billions for foreign aid while refusing to fund its immigration priorities.
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Continued foreign aid incentivizes Afghan elites, who are already on the verge of splintering, to compete rather than come together.
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More than 120 retired generals and admirals urged Congress Monday not to slash funding for State's diplomacy and foreign aid.
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Trump suggested earlier this week that the U.S. could cut off foreign aid for countries that voted for the resolution.
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Did Republican politicians, so big on flag waving and impugning their rivals' patriotism, reject this foreign aid to their cause?
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Given the life and death consequences the proposed cuts to foreign aid, this funding must not become political football today.
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The Trump administration has proposed significant cutbacks in foreign aid and has promised to demand greater accountability from aid recipients.
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As the crisis deepens, hitting ordinary Lebanese hard, there is no sign of foreign aid to the deeply indebted country.
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As the crisis deepens, hitting ordinary Lebanese hard, there is no sign of foreign aid to the deeply indebted country.
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Bolton's testimony is potentially explosive because he has direct, firsthand knowledge of Trump's reasons for withholding foreign aid to Ukraine.
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" Western allies have called on Mr. Sisi to reject the proposed regulation of foreign aid, which Senator McCain termed "draconian.
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Foreign aid amounts to about 1 percent of federal spending, or $42.4 billion, much of it for American-made weaponry.
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They detailed the Trump administration's withholding of foreign aid to compel Ukraine to investigate one of the President's political rivals.
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Mr. Vought was attempting to impose cuts of as much as $4 billion on the nation's overall foreign aid budget.
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Ultimately, Congress decides on foreign aid budgets, but the White House didn't win any friends on the continent for this.
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As Turkish-backed militias advanced, foreign aid groups pulled out of al-Hol and other camps, fearing for their safety.
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The Gates Foundation still has "a lot of concerns" about foreign aid, Bill Gates told reporters on a briefing call.
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But Paul contended on NBC's "Meet the Press" that in some ways, there are always contingencies on U.S. foreign aid.
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Ethnic Rakhine have long complained that foreign aid agencies have given generously to Muslims while ignoring other equally needy people.
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Japan is one of Myanmar's biggest foreign aid donors, where it vies for influence with China, Myanmar's largest trading partner.
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On Tuesday, he cheered women's rights advocates by lifting the country's ban on using foreign aid money for abortion services.
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"He has a right to withhold funding to that leader should the law be followed and the purpose be just, but he does not under our laws and under our Constitution have a right to use the powers of his office to corruptly solicit foreign aid -- prohibited foreign aid -- in his reelection," Schiff said.
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But foreign aid that had been stopped under Jammeh is coming back, a mark of confidence in the democratically elected government.
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Almost as soon as Ms Sirleaf formed a government, foreign aid began to pour in, along with advice from Western experts.
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With the stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump reinstated a controversial rule that blocks foreign aid for family planning services.
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The point of Trump's tour was to highlight all the ways US foreign aid is helping children in the developing world.
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About two dozen atheist writers, publishers, members of religious minorities, social activists and foreign aid workers have been slain since 2013.
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Then the Republican-controlled Congress maintained foreign aid at $35bn, as in 2017, with funding for health and food largely unchanged.
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But Trump did not follow through on a similar threat to cut foreign aid to Honduras in response to that caravan.
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EXCLUSIVE-FOREIGN AID TO UKRAINE WOULD REMAIN AT THE SAME LEVEL AS THE PREVIOUS YEAR UNDER NEW PROPOSAL - SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL
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Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has claimed the foreign aid was withheld so European allies could contribute their fair share.
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Taylor's testimony drew a "direct line" connecting the foreign aid to Ukraine with the political investigations called for by Trump, Rep.
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The Helms Amendment already blocks US foreign aid from directly funding abortion overseas — but the global gag rule goes much farther.
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Bono and Pearl Jam perform and Kevin Rudd, who was then campaigning to become Prime Minister, committed to double foreign aid.
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Of every £28,250 of public spending, over £53 goes on defence, £25 on foreign aid and £28 on the Foreign Office.
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Though the U.S. spends less than one percent of annual GDP on foreign aid, many think America should prioritize itself more.
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The state government would like to accept foreign aid to help speed reconstruction, but the central authorities are turning it away.
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Rather, the department and its $10 billion foreign aid budget are losing money because of its efforts to protect the environment.
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Some 2 million Palestinians live in Gaza, whose economy has suffered years of blockades as well as recent foreign aid cuts.
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Trump also complains about foreign aid -- but doesn't seem to know it's less than a penny of every federal dollar spent.
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Britain still wins some kudos for being one of just six countries that spend 0.7% of their GDP on foreign aid.
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Helped by foreign aid, officials are now trying to connect every household to the grid or to solar power by 2025.
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They added that there was "credible information" that foreign aid agencies and NGOs were training and deploying spies for Boko Haram.
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He has consistently rejected letting foreign aid into Venezuela, calling it a "political show" and a cover for a U.S. invasion.
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That law will yank foreign aid from any nongovernmental organization that so much as discusses abortion as an option with patients.
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Because that's exactly the kind of thing that stands in the way of a crucial Trump administrative initiative: Cutting foreign aid.
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But he was non-committal about how much the president, who has often proved himself averse to foreign aid, might contribute.
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The impoverished East African nation could be one of the hardest hit in Africa by proposed cuts to US foreign aid.
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There are a lot of misconceptions about the value of foreign aid, at times seen as some form of naïve humanitarianism.
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But for a Trump administration to halt our involvement and support for things like foreign aid would be a grave mistake.
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And the third is heavy dependency on foreign aid with no prospect of generating local economic prosperity anywhere in the region.
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According to the Council of Foreign Relations – America doled out nearly $2628 billion in foreign aid to 28503 countries in 22019.
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A budget plan released by the White House in March proposes a 28 percent cut for U.S. foreign aid and diplomacy.
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While most attention since the election has focused on Trump's protectionism, his supporters draw upon public skepticism about foreign aid, too.
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I'm against any sort of wasting of money on foreign aid, but it's less than 1 percent of our federal budget.
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U.S. foreign aid should never be used as a tool to limit women's access to healthcare or to censor free speech.
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The Trump administration is reportedly cutting foreign aid to Cameroon over concerns about the government's record of alleged human rights abuses.
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Since the turn of the century, the report found a significant amount of China's foreign aid was directed to African countries.
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Hal RogersHarold (Hal) Dallas RogersTrump says he'll decide on foreign aid cuts within a week Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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Eliminate duplicative foreign aid programs, improve coordination of remaining programs, end congressional "earmarks," and terminate programs that do not work. 6900.
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Hunger, famine disease, poverty, and foreign aid are things that are typically associated with Africa in people's minds in other continents.
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Why shouldn't we view Ukraine — a nation to which we send billions in foreign aid — in light of the same standards?
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As a result, the White House proposed on Thursday a reduction of some 28 percent on U.S. diplomacy and foreign aid.
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Leftist Anti-American govt of #ElSalvador will soon lose U.S. foreign aid don't want that to happen to Guatemala as well.
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Tim Docking co-chairs the Private Sector Advisory Council at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, an independent U.S. government foreign aid agency.
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Lawmakers in their letter expressed concern that "poor planning" around foreign aid by the Trump administration could cause major problems abroad.
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The first is that those who think cutting foreign aid will make a significant dent in our federal deficit are misinformed.
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The new president will need a powerful mandate to, for example, compete with climate change and Syrian refugees for foreign aid.
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I'm against any sort of wasting of money on foreign aid, but it's less than 1 percent of our federal budget.
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Terror group al-Shabaab has only made matters worse by blocking humanitarian agencies from entering the country and stealing foreign aid.
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Sanders has an ambitious domestic agenda and there's good reason to believe that will be the fiscal priority, not foreign aid.
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Foreign aid pays for programs that are actually making headway in reducing the corruption and violence that drive people to migrate.
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Voters in both parties have always been more reluctant than public officials to embrace foreign aid, military deployments and multinational agreements.
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It is unclear whether Maduro's government, which denies the country is suffering a humanitarian crisis, will let any foreign aid through.
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Meanwhile, foreign aid workers and visitors have been stranded, trapped by makeshift roadblocks or the fear of moving within the city.
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On foreign aid in general, he usually voiced an "America first" agenda, saying tax dollars should go to rebuilding this country.
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Venezuela Venezuela's embattled government closed down a maritime border and grounded flights as the opposition party seeks to import foreign aid.
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If there exist any obstacle against the acceptance of foreign aid, kindly look into the matter seriously and bring suitable modifications.
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House Democrats are investigating whether Trump withheld foreign aid to Ukraine unless the country opened a probe into the Biden family.
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Surprisingly, the new report was not a reaction to Mr. Trump's threats to slash the foreign aid budget by 32 percent.
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Mr. Trump's budget includes deep cuts to domestic programs and foreign aid, and at best has been received tepidly by Congress.
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If Democrats were hoping that straightforward questions — Is it legitimate for presidents to withhold foreign aid to help their reelection campaigns?
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Staff attorneys did not question the witnesses, who delved into some of the particulars at how American foreign aid is distributed.
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Trump posted several tweets about the caravan on Tuesday, calling for an end to foreign aid should they continue to travel.
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The U.S. government, Biden argued, could leverage foreign aid and diplomatic mechanisms to push countries to end discriminatory policies and practices.
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That's why 120 generals and admirals recently signed a letter pleading with Congress to fund the State Department and foreign aid.
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Honduras receives millions in US foreign aid Honduras, the second-poorest country in Central America, is plagued by widespread gang violence.
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Whether these threats to cut foreign aid are hollow political talking points, or actual Trump administration policy remains to be seen.
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MORE strongly supported the use of security alliances, trade agreements, and foreign aid as tools for advancing U.S. interests and values.
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Over and over, he's warned that foreign aid would be cut if migrants aren't stopped before they reach the US border.
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Liberal-National coalition ** The coalition in April trimmed foreign aid from its 2019/20 budget to be worth A$4.04 billion.
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The Millennium Challenge Corporation, an independent bilateral foreign aid agency, improved its scores the most, increasing by 2628 points to 28503.
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On a macro level, the Trump administration is generally hostile to foreign aid, having proposed multiple times to slash it significantly.
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She said relations between the foreign aid groups and the Rakhine people had been poisoned by years of neglect and favoritism.
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Bamian attracted a range of foreign aid groups with ambitious projects: a ski slope, to promote tourism; a girl's bicycle team.
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Trump staked out his position on foreign aid on the campaign trail, casting it as a waste of U.S. tax dollars.
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Lebanon has been a big recipient of foreign aid to help it cope with hosting one million refugees from neighboring Syria.
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And Secretary of State Mike Pompeo fought Mr. Mulvaney's attempts to claw back $3 billion in foreign aid spending this year, telling Mr. Trump that the cuts would weaken the country's position in the world and his own standing with the department's pro-foreign-aid career staff, according to two administration officials with knowledge of the exchanges.
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Malawi, for example, remains one of the poorest countries in Africa and is one of the continent's main recipients of foreign aid.
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Secondly, the proposed assault on the foreign aid budget, which is a guarantor of America's safety and an ambassador for its values.
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O'Rourke said in April he would increase foreign aid funding to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, which the Trump Administration has cut.
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Trump, though, moved earlier this year to cut US foreign aid to those countries, a move even US officials say is counterproductive.
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"I am a huge supporter of foreign aid and the UN," the South Carolina senator told CNN after the Security Council vote.
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I think he wants private-sector assistance for North Korea rather than what his father wanted which was handouts and foreign aid.
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Jordan is increasingly in debt and dependent on foreign aid, at a time when regional crises have helped drive an economic downturn.
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Several leading lawmakers said diplomacy and foreign aid, often called "soft power," ensure national security in tandem with military forces and weapons.
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THE foreign-aid budget for 2018, passed by Congress in March, looked very different from the one the White House asked for.
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Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle last year said they did not support the president's previous proposals to cut foreign aid.
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Lindsey Graham, were pushing back against proposed cuts, saying that cuts to foreign aid would undermine significant security and anti-terrorism efforts.
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Now they are talking about gutting environmental regulations and cutting foreign aid, two areas that I know are very important to you.
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For this reason, the exact calculus behind any strategy of foreign aid should be the subject of more popular debate and oversight.
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Recent foreign aid cuts and sanctions by the Palestinian Authority, Hamas's rival in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, have worsened the situation.
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The Trump administration is planning to submit a budget proposing steep cuts in spending on the U.S. State Department and foreign aid.
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Protesters are demanding elections, freedom for jailed activists, foreign aid to offset an economic crisis, and autonomy for the opposition-controlled legislature.
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Howell also said the Libertarian Party advocates ending military interventions and foreign aid, which she said would promote peace and reduce spending.
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It's challenging, but we're appreciative that Congress has maintained foreign aid funding and we're hoping that will continue to be the case.
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In remarks at Georgetown University, she blasted the President's budget blueprint, which proposed deep domestic spending cuts and reductions in foreign aid.
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The White House has been floating a plan to take a whopping 5003 percent cut to the State Department's foreign aid budget.
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" Damon said that he doesn't know what Trump's policy will be on foreign aid but "we can just hope for the best.
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For over a decade, Afghanistan has relied upon foreign aid — mostly from the US — for around 45 percent of its total budget.
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So when you see headlines about how Trump is set to dramatically slash the foreign aid budget, or cut the EPA, etc.
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"India makes its participation contingent on receiving billions and billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid from developed countries," said Trump.
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Foreign aid is a tiny piece of the U.S. budget each year, but it is greatly outweighed by its power and potential.
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The United States spends about $50 billion a year in foreign aid, but that includes running diplomatic missions and giving academic grants.
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The White House is also pushing for lower funding for domestic and foreign aid programs, may of which have strong bipartisan support.
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Good as Gates' intentions are, it's easy to see why a nation so hostile to foreign aid would bristle at the offer.
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The effort is one of the few areas where Trump has sought to bolster, not slash, the federal government's foreign aid system.
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Pompeo announcement today means these NGOs won't be eligible for foreign aid if they work with organizations that provide or promote abortions.
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Troops had turned back foreign aid convoys from Venezuela's border using teargas and rubber rounds on Saturday, killing at least two protesters.
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These members often oppose extended American military operations, criticize allies for freeriding security guarantees, and question the value of foreign aid programs.
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The economic strains reduced local revenue and foreign aid, forcing Jordan to borrow heavily externally and also resort to more domestic financing.
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The last time that the Mexico City policy was enacted in 2001, the Bush administration cut about $600 million in foreign aid.
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The correlation is extremely strong between levels of foreign aid for health and decreasing death rates for some of the deadliest diseases.
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Together, this represents less than 0.2 percent of the 2017 U.S. foreign aid budget or 0.00045 percent of the entire federal budget.
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Foreign aid groups, who are not present in the city, are providing help to those who manage to escape to refugee camps.
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As the powerful chairman of a subcommittee that oversees foreign aid, Mr. Graham is in a position to throw his weight around.
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Trump told reporters earlier this week that the White House was in talks with members of both parties about the foreign aid.
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The extra troops and foreign aid are not likely to come cheap, however, adding to the fight's $6900 billion annual price tag.
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This can help stretch our foreign aid dollars as far as possible and is critical to accelerate progress and help prevent resurgence.
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The Trump administration has backed the measure despite calling for steep cuts to other foreign aid programs in its annual budget proposals.
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The reason why opposition was muted was probably the fact that U.S. foreign aid has long been very unpopular among American voters.
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American foreign aid is transformational and still needed in this region, but it is not going to replace American trade and investment.
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Republicans, meanwhile, said the call revealed no explicit threat or "quid pro quo" arrangement to withhold foreign aid unless Ukraine investigates Biden.
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MSF operates in eight Yemeni provinces at a time when many foreign aid groups and even United Nations personnel have been evacuated.
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It's time for Congress to stand up and do its job by demanding a full accounting of Pentagon spending on foreign aid.
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Trump on Tuesday also issued a threat to cut off foreign aid dollars to an unspecified list of countries that don't reciprocate.
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Mr. Menendez has promised to try to stall appointments to the State Department should the administration attempt broad revocations of foreign aid.
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Plainly, holidaymakers can't be expected to probe their host countries' defects — quite often linked to their home countries' hypocritical "foreign aid" programs.
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But Trudeau can be more of a talker than a doer; he has been less generous with foreign aid than his predecessor.
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Local doctors and foreign aid organizations like Doctors Without Borders are scrambling to set up more clinics but can hardly keep pace.
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The administration has yet to spend nearly $3 billion in foreign aid, money allocated last year by Congress with broad bipartisan support.
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Last month, President Donald Trump proposed deep cuts in foreign aid as part of a $4.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2021.
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The economy is growing, thanks in part to large infusions of foreign aid, but unemployment among young people is nearly 60 percent.
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What is more noteworthy is that a major piece of Afghan socioeconomic development is happening without direct foreign aid or foreign advisers.
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Both rely on scapegoats (immigrants, on the one hand; on the other, things like foreign aid and legal assistance for the poor).
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In the coming weeks, MFAN will lay out a coherent and principled approach to effective foreign aid based on the principles above.
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As President, the argument goes, Trump had the right to take steps to prevent corruption in Ukraine, a recipient of foreign aid.
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By helping to improve livelihoods, foreign aid can help support a generation of demand for U.S. goods and build stable trading partners.
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China also uses foreign aid as a bargaining chip in corrupt African countries with plenty of natural resources for them to exploit.
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The White House Office of Management and Budget has been considering sending Congress a request to rescind authorization from certain foreign aid.
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They use Trump's well-known skepticism about U.S. spending on foreign aid as justification for his hesitation to give money to Ukraine.
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He also previously taught at Columbia Business School and has published essays on foreign aid and the role of the Federal Reserve.
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A cut to foreign aid could mean a death sentence for millions of people who are supported by lifesaving global health programs.
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Unchecked by our investments in foreign aid, terrorism could easily spread, just as we have seen it spread and reach our shores.
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The federal budget spends approximately 1.3 percent of its money on foreign aid, according to data from the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Acting for personal financial gain — such as withholding foreign aid unless you receive a million-dollar kickback — is clearly corrupt, argued Dershowitz.
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Previously China had no dedicated agency devoted to foreign aid, despite giving tens of billions of dollars in overseas assistance since 2000.
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Some people are concerned, however, that rhetoric emanating from the White House about foreign aid could spell doom for programs like Pepfar.
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At a committee hearing, he also defended President Donald Trump's plans for steep reductions in U.S. spending on diplomacy and foreign aid.
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Mulvaney's absence from the impeachment proceedings is a substantial one, given his central role in the withholding of foreign aid from Ukraine.
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And other witnesses including Bill Taylor and George Kent have confirmed Mulvaney's role in placing a hold on foreign aid to Ukraine.
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Will John Bolton come forward to testify, particularly about his one-on-one conversation with Trump about releasing foreign aid to Ukraine?
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Mr. Mulvaney had been asked why foreign aid, a small fraction of federal spending, was an expected target of the Trump budget.
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And in contrast to 2016, when he could argue he was simply the passive recipient of foreign aid, here he initiated contact.
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The corresponding "influence in the performance of an official act" -- the quid pro quo -- is the delivery of foreign aid to Ukraine.
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Despite the administration's repeated efforts to gut foreign aid, Congress has proven to be a bulwark against those dangerous proposals, restoring funding.
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Who else thinks Joe Biden should be investigated for threatening to cut foreign aid if Ukraine didn't stop investigating his son. #InvestigateTheBidenFamily.
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The State Department and foreign aid have long been targets for budget cutters because many Americans don't understand what these programs do.
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The plan deeply slashes money for the State Department, foreign aid, the Internal Revenue Service and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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"Moving forward, we are only going to give foreign aid to those who respect us, and, frankly, are our friends," he said.
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Second, the tone of the Trump administration has been just awful about blaming these countries and threatening to strip their foreign aid.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants to cut the budgets for foreign aid and the State Department by a third.
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Before he officially declared his candidacy, Mr. Trump proposed to "deduct costs from Mexican foreign aid" in an April 2015 Twitter post.
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Huge mineral concessions were handed to corporations from countries that finance Congo's elections and that support Mr. Kabila's government with foreign aid.
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Australia worries China is using foreign aid to secure greater influence over small Pacific countries which control vast swathes of resource-rich ocean.
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But here, Gillibrand made a pretty compelling case for why diplomacy — and the tools around it, particularly foreign aid — is worth the investment.
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"Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen," Trump said Tuesday.
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Foreign aid, which accounts for roughly 1% of the federal budget, is expected to be high on the list of areas to cut.
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General David Petraeus, the former CIA director, signed a letter to Congress calling for foreign aid to be ring-fenced in the budget.
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The economic strains have reduced local revenue and foreign aid, forcing Jordan to borrow heavily externally and also resort to more domestic financing.
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" Friedman added that, "the Trump administration is not looking to cut back on foreign aid and will, in all likelihood, increase it significantly.
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But he did reiterate that he thought it would be a mistake for the US to roll back its commitment to foreign aid.
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The White House put out its annual spending blueprint Monday, and once again, the Trump administration proposes dramatically slashing funding for foreign aid.
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South Sudan is heavily dependent on foreign aid, but it has quickly become the most dangerous place in the world for humanitarian workers.
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It is campaigning for Britain's government to abandon a pledge, passed into law in 2015, to earmark 0.7% of GDP for foreign aid.
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He argues it is only fair for the centre to compensate the state for the foreign aid it was too proud to accept.
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While the government protected funding for the health service, schools and foreign aid, it cut local services, the justice system and police numbers.
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Representing about one percent of the federal budget, foreign aid is a relatively cheap way to achieve America's policy goals across the globe.
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China has sought to increase its clout in the Pacific through increased foreign aid, which Australia has moved to undercut in recent months.
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Hit hard would be foreign aid, grants to multilateral development agencies like the World Bank and climate change programs at the United Nations.
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Don't cotton to any more drastic cuts in foreign aid and assistance, which helps lift other nations out of poverty, ignorance and incompetence.
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So in terms of our work in foreign aid, like, we don't-, we have yet to see what his angle is on that.
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And it should consider explicitly outlawing any effort to encourage foreign interference in domestic elections, including but not limited to withholding foreign aid.
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That changed under President Barack Obama's administration, which sent the cheese to food banks and school lunch programs, or in foreign aid packages.
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A 2016 Pew poll found that 85033 percent of Americans were opposed to increasing foreign aid, while 48 percent would support increasing aid.
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The Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act (ATCA) empowers Americans to sue foreign aid recipients in U.S. courts over alleged complicity in "acts of war".
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In the foreign aid sector, where billions of dollars are lost every year due to corruption, blockchain can help improve transparency, said Galen.
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Elected from Kentucky in 1984, he started his career as a moderate, an internationalist who opposed South African apartheid and backed foreign aid.
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Graham is a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees foreign aid.
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THE world of foreign aid is much like the Olympics: countries jostle to show their national colours in as many arenas as possible.
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It still gets a lot of foreign aid ($930m in 2014), but donors try to keep the cash out of the government's hands.
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From a humanitarian perspective, providing foreign aid such as food or clothing should be a significant step in success stories for developing countries.
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Congress has rejected Trump's foreign aid cuts before, and it will almost certainly do it again barring a massive shift within the GOP.
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Relief for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands is not foreign aid; these are American territories, American communities, American lives at stake.
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The kingdom's 800,000 subjects enjoy the lion's share of India's $1bn annual foreign-aid budget—nearly 60% of it this year and next.
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The World Food Program and foreign aid agencies stepped in to feed millions of Zimbabweans, while international aid and foreign investment dried up.
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"Our new foreign assistance strategy would ensure that all US foreign aid, in every corner of the globe, advances US interests," Bolton added.
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For most of the last 45 years, polls have consistently shown that Americans believe the U.S. is spending too much on foreign aid.
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Malpass has argued that "globalism and multilateralism have gone substantially too far," reflecting Trump's "America first" distaste for foreign aid and development programs.
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But the mounting crises come at a time when traditional leaders in humanitarian aid look to scale back on their foreign aid spending.
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The extra troops and foreign aid are not likely to come cheap, however, adding to the fight's already $2628 billion annual price tag.
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Trump will have to choose between a desire to dramatically slash spending on diplomacy and foreign aid and his promise to defeat ISIS.
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But with foreign aid cuts official as of June 17, 2019, all progress will be undone and the refugee migration could be exacerbated.
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Reagan provided substantial foreign aid to Jamaica, and the financier David Rockefeller led an investment effort that helped with the island's economic recovery.
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PEPFAR is a highly successful foreign-aid program because it is scrupulous about documenting and delivering its results to Congress and the president.
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Trump's decision to order the review comes after the White House publicly lost a battle to slash foreign aid spending across the board.
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A US official told CNN Wednesday there had not been an official request yet to shield Ivanka Trump and Pence's foreign aid programs.
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Trump allegedly inappropriately leveraged duly appropriated foreign aid money to pressure the Ukrainian government into launching a bogus investigation of Joe Biden's family.
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They denied that Trump withheld meetings or foreign aid from Ukraine, and that he didn't pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do anything.
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The role in question oversees State's management and resources, Bloomberg added, and the agency's foreign aid is under similar scrutiny for potential cuts.
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The humble Dubai exhibition was a reminder that Afghanistan needs to look within to build an economic future after foreign aid runs out.
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Trump did not mention a provision of foreign aid to Ukraine on the call, one of the people said, according to the Journal.
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Before he can retool U.S. foreign aid spending, Pompeo will have to argue against the proposed 85033 percent spending cut in Trump's budget.
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Some believe the United States should pull all support, including foreign aid, and others feel the U.S. should remain steadfast and increase assistance.
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U.S. government auditors also found massive waste and corruption, fueling suspicions of Western politicians like Trump who want to scale back foreign aid.
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For that very reason, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates argued vigorously for increases in the State Department budget and the foreign aid account.
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The government of Canada over decades has donated millions of dollars to foreign aid programs run by charities led by the Aga Khan.
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Trump hints at cutting foreign aid for countries that vote at the U.N. to condemn his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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What happens in this village has the potential to transform foreign-aid institutions, but its effects might also be felt closer to home.
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Michael Keating, the UN's head of country, acknowledged the scam but said that most of the foreign aid still reached its intended destination.
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And Afghans need to understand the reality that foreign aid alone will not generate enough to make the country's economy grow rapidly enough.
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The annual report catalogs violence, repression and cruelty around the world, under a mandate set by Congress in foreign aid and trade laws.
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Guatemala Of all the countries in Central America, Guatemala is set to receive the most foreign aid from the United States this year.
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Trump's unexpected decision to cut foreign aid to Egypt leaves Sisi with the painful option of severing Cairo's longstanding relationship with North Korea.
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Trump sought to slash foreign aid in this year's budget, but he ended up signing a budget without those cuts after Congress objected.
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Universal basic income has considerable merit as a possible way foreign aid could be more effective in promoting economic development in poor countries.
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While we all ponder that notion, Sweden's diplomats and foreign aid workers will continue to deliver lectures on gender equality to other countries.
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On Monday, President Trump reinstated the global gag rule, which strips all US funding from foreign aid groups that counsel patients on abortion.
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Taipei blamed the trend on China's "dollar diplomacy"— the practice of using foreign aid and investment to pressure economic allies to cut ties.
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While cutting foreign aid has long been a target for conservatives, those proposed cuts have drawn out critics from both sides of the aisle.
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Defending this one percent, whether the high return investments on foreign aid or welcoming the world's refugees, must be part of America's defense strategy.
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Gates met with President Trump on March 15th to discuss the various initiatives of his foundation and to argue against cuts to foreign aid.
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Foreign aid is currently being assembled in both Brazil and Colombia, at the call of Venezuelan opposition leader and self-declared president Juan Guaido.
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Foreign aid "I'm going to spend less money on people overseas and more money on people back home," Mulvaney said, describing Trump's campaign message.
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About half of that comes from bone-deep cuts to domestic agencies, covering anything from environmental protection and foreign aid to education and transportation.
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At the same time, he is distancing himself from the United States, the main source of foreign aid to the Philippines in fighting drugs.
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Gates says his meetings in D.C. are meant to update officials on the foreign aid partnership between the Gates Foundation and the U.S. government.
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And yet the fact that he keeps proposing them suggests that he really is sending a signal that he does not support foreign aid.
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That's the unifying theme behind two regulations the Freedom Caucus wants to repeal, one that involves Planned Parenthood and another that involves foreign aid.
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At a foreign-aid donors conference in Brussels this week, civil aid worth about $3.8 billion a year was promised until at least 2020.
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Female foreign aid workers were gang-raped by rampaging government soldiers who stormed a hotel in Juba during last July's violence in the capital.
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Trump has defended himself by noting that Zelensky stated he felt "no pressure" while dealing with Trump over delivery of foreign aid to Ukraine.
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This is how we're going to look at everything from our foreign policy, and our trade deals, and billions of dollars of foreign aid.
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A House Appropriations subcommittee released a draft of its bill funding the State Department and foreign aid programs for the fiscal year ending Sept.
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This could mean calculations of Afghanistan's dramatic improvement, hailed as one of the gains of foreign aid there, may be an overestimate, said Campbell.
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Foreign aid agencies, governments and the WHO hope that they will be able to curb the spread of the disease before it reaches Kinshasa.
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Immigrants officially sent $51 billion in remittances home in 2012 — far larger than the US government's foreign aid budget of $39 billion that year.
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Venezuela's opposition snubbed a scheduled meeting with government officials on Tuesday, saying the government's earlier electoral and foreign aid promises had not been kept.
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In addition to his 37 percent cut proposal, the White House is also reviewing all foreign aid programs that total $50.1 billion per year.
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When compared to the larger federal budget and presented as "less than 85033 percent," it is tempting to dismiss foreign aid spending as inconsequential.
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Time for a fresh look None of this is to say that the ground level administrators of foreign aid are not diligent government employees.
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Taxpayers deserve a fresh look at foreign aid, both its levels of funding and the ultimate question of whether it works or does not.
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President George W. Bush's administration surprised Africans: U.S. exports to Africa doubled, overall trade volume tripled and U.S. foreign aid to the continent quadrupled.
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The proposed cut is one of the more troubling aspects of Trump's foreign aid budget, which decreases bilateral aid to Tunisia by 22019 percent.
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To do that, the United States should strive to design and implement foreign aid programs in a way that gives developing countries increasing autonomy.
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Rwanda, which is still heavily dependent on foreign aid after the 1994 genocide tore the nation apart, has been seeking to boost the sector.
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If confirmed in the Senate, Green will take over USAID as the U.S. foreign aid budget faces sharp potential cuts under the Trump administration.
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Similarly, drastic cuts to foreign aid might appeal to Trump's base in the short term, but could have unintended consequences for U.S. national security.
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Asked to name the top two or three areas of government spending, 26% of Britons cited foreign aid, more than picked pensions or education.
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Net foreign aid to Turkey, an increasingly autocratic country that is not poor, rose more than tenfold between 2004 and 2014, to $3.4 billion.
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The White House at the time was beginning a campaign to use foreign aid as a lever to persuade countries to respect human rights.
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He is the president of The Lugar Center, which addresses critical issues including global food security, foreign aid effectiveness, WMD nonproliferation and bipartisan governance.
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Beyond foreign aid, however, there is almost generalized agreement that U.S. diplomatic disengagement from the region has, for decades, worsened Central America's underlying problems.
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And as Zambia's workforce has become healthier and more productive, its economy has grown and gotten less dependent on foreign aid to fight AIDS.
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Feed the Future, the 6900 USAID-led precursor to the GFSA, has proven the cost-effectiveness and success of such U.S. foreign aid programs.
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China, which operates a parallel aid system that channels money mostly to friendly governments, is sending officials from the ministry that handles foreign aid.
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Remittances to low- and middle income countries are three times greater than foreign aid Migrants typically share their gains with their families back home.
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Thanks to the generosity of the American people, U.S. foreign aid has helped Mustefa and millions of Ethiopians work their way out of poverty.
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The kidnappings of foreigners in Kabul have been concentrated in the Taimani neighborhood, where many foreign aid workers and journalists have homes and offices.
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Progress has been made, particularly with the bipartisan Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability and Global Food Security Acts being signed into law last year.
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These claims have not been substantiated by the Trump administration, but the president continues to threaten to cut off foreign aid over the caravan.
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It is also no surprise that the Palestinians have become dependent on foreign aid, including from taxpayers in the U.S., the EU, and elsewhere.
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"Sure enough, supporting foreign aid as the ability to enhance people's lives and standards of living, and NAFTA is a good thing," she said.
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Other organizations could arrange bipartisan staff forums on foreign aid, global health, non-proliferation, military posture, democracy-building, human rights policy, and the like.
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For starters, it should refuse foreign aid that passes through mega-charities, which mostly serves to crowd out local NGO efforts while perpetuating dependency.
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Among the worst of their recent proposals is slashing foreign aid, a counterproductive measure which is the absolute last thing the administration should do.
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Sisi's visit comes as the Trump administration has proposed massive cuts to U.S. foreign aid, the details of which are still to be determined.
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" "If you're seeking some kind of personal gain and you're using — whether it's American foreign aid or American weapons or American influence — that's wrong.
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A strong defense, vigorous diplomacy, generous foreign aid — these are means, he thought, to making the world a better, safer, and more prosperous place.
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The White House would also eliminate or drastically cut domestic and foreign aid programs it says lack a significant return on investment for taxpayers.
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Diplomacy and foreign aid are fine, but economic sanctions and the use of military force will always be controversial among people on the left.
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McLean specializes in the study of the international political economy and international institutions, with a focus on foreign aid, economic sanctions, and environmental cooperation.
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Researchers discovered that, when respondents were informed of the correct spending on foreign aid, their support of increased spending on global health improved significantly.
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But foreign aid workers continue to complain of delays in getting supplies approved for import and of being hassled on the ground by officials.
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She highlighted the work the American foreign aid agency is doing on the continent, as well as of her child-focused "Be Best" platform.
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A retrial of the case involving the 43 foreign aid workers, many of whom were convicted in absentia, is scheduled to start this year.
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President Trump is threatening to cut foreign aid to punish these countries for not, as he sees it, doing enough to stop the caravan.
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Far from cutting programs like environmental protection, biomedical research and foreign aid, the president's signature ensured their expansion — not just this year but next.
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His ability to work with parliament will be crucial to meeting the expectations of his voters and passing reforms to keep foreign aid flowing.
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Every day, America's diplomats and foreign aid providers advance our nation's security by moving the world toward our interests in ways large and small.
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Sudan's new prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, said his country needs $8bn in foreign aid over the next two years to fix the crippled economy.
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Both Republicans and Democrats slammed the cuts to foreign aid and insisted defense spending boosts shouldn't come at the expense of other necessary programs.
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Republicans honed in on Hale's previous testimony where he said that there had been many cases of foreign aid being frozen in the past.
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Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), a member of the House Appropriations subcommittee overseeing the State Department budget, called for more foreign aid funding, not less.
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In December, Britain's foreign aid agency gave it top grades on a "value for money" assessment of 3003 aid organizations to which it donates.
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President Trump on Monday morning signed an executive order blocking foreign aid or federal funding for international nongovernmental organizations that provide or "promote" abortions.
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The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are pushing back against a White House plan to block foreign aid funds.
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Earlier this week, he reinstituted a Reagan-era policy prohibiting foreign aid to health providers abroad that discuss abortion as a family planning option.
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Opposition leader Scheer, for example, wants to cut foreign aid yet also hopes to win a seat for Canada on the U.N. Security Council.
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The budget will propose cutting foreign aid spending by 21 percent and, as in previous budgets, eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Foreign aid funding is 1 percent of the U.S. budget and of that one percent, one quarter of it goes to global health. Sens.
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It spends money on subsidies for EU farmers, on equalizing living standards across the bloc, border management, research, security and various foreign aid programs.
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Green, for his part, is a known entity in the foreign aid sphere, having served as ambassador to Tanzania under President George W. Bush.
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House Democrats are now investigating whether Trump attempted to slow-walk millions of dollars worth of foreign aid to Ukraine while pressing for investigations.
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Senators voted to set aside Paul's push to pay for the $6900 billion in hurricane recovery funding through cuts to unspent foreign aid money.
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John Neely Kennedy reportedly told lawmakers that the allegations Trump faces should be compared to the US attaching conditions to foreign aid, and Sen.
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Finally, Trump wants to slash the State Department and foreign aid budgets and make it harder for people to immigrate to America, particularly Muslims.
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To fund his military expansion, Mr. Trump has asked to cut billions that would probably come out of State Department and foreign aid programs.
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By his own admission, Trump encouraged ("solicited") Ukraine to investigate Biden by allegedly dangling hundreds of millions of dollars in recently-suspended foreign aid.
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He reinstated what's called the Mexico City policy, which stipulates that family planning funds cannot go to foreign aid groups that ever discuss abortion.
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Alongside environmental protection and foreign aid, another victim may be federal funding of arts and humanities, created by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965.
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That is roughly what Americans spend on lottery tickets every year, and it is about half of what the world spends on foreign aid.
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Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador -- they're paid a lot of money, every year we give them foreign aid and they did nothing for us, nothing.
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But asked a similar question on Tuesday, Trump's talking point suddenly changed to his frustrations about European countries not spending enough on foreign aid.
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Trump has made the threat of cuts to foreign aid going to Latin American countries over migrant caravans several times over the last year.
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He also used the lure of foreign aid to try to get Venezuelans to rise up against their dictator, Nicolás Maduro — another unsuccessful effort.
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The White House last month opted not to move forward with other broader cuts to foreign aid amid pushback from some top administration officials.
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The legacy of the bombing still lingers in such unexploded ordnance, although American and other foreign aid pays for most efforts to remove it.
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Slow-walking State Department funds — Despite abandoning the idea of yanking back foreign aid as the fiscal year draws to a close on Sept.
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But they singled out foreign aid programs in particular, indicating the administration believes that other countries are merely taking advantage of the United States.
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He repeatedly demanded that she cut off foreign aid to Central American countries even though the funding was the responsibility of the State Department.
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In a 2015 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average respondent thought that 26 percent of the federal budget went to foreign aid.
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As a share of Liberia's puny economy (which is smaller than that of the Isle of Wight, off England's south coast) foreign aid remains enormous.
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Supported by foreign aid, Zhusupov's team is greening about 2000,7003 hectares a year - planting rows that run 2700 km long and stand 24 metres apart.
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Multiple officials have also made clear over the last 48 hours that the EPA and foreign aid will be cut significantly under the new plan.
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Trump is asking for a 21625 percent cut to the State Department and foreign aid spending — a request that lawmakers have rejected in previous years.
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"To date, every single witness, every single fact has not supported any pause or holdup on foreign aid being attached to any conditions," he said.
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Investors are also seeking reassurances that whoever wins will accelerate reforms that are needed to keep foreign aid flowing and attract much-wanted foreign investment.
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Indeed, the best evidence suggests that the strongest predictors of foreign aid are political and strategic and interests of donor countries and not global altruism.
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Thirteen soldiers in South Sudan went on trial for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a South Sudanese man in 2016.
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He's developed a reputation for bipartisanship and notes he has worked productively with Graham on issues like immigration reform, criminal justice reform, and foreign aid.
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The World Bank estimates that the true number might be closer to $130 billion in remittances — nearly four times what we send in foreign aid.
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So does a long propensity, striking in a state with such a prickly nationalism, to play up its geopolitical importance in return for foreign aid.
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While members from both parties generally back high military spending, supporters of foreign aid spending argue that international crises cannot be solved only with force.
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In 2013 the researchers reckoned that aid to Africa alone (which accounts for half of China's total foreign aid) was $75bn between 2000 and 2011.
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Many members of the U.S. Congress, including some of Trump's fellow Republicans, disagree sharply with his proposal to slash foreign aid and spending on diplomacy.
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Last year it set up an agency to oversee its foreign aid, in part to turn the BRI into a more co-ordinated development programme.
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Garcia said his client had been in Colombia in February to help coordinate efforts to send foreign aid across the border, not to smuggle weapons.
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But the Egyptian leader may be let down, as the Trump administration has made clear that, outside of Israel, it will sharply cut foreign aid.
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The whole industry of foreign lobbying and foreign aid in general shines a light on the disconnect between the political class and the American people.
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When this approach is employed, it seems apparent that foreign aid spending— even when it comes in at less than 21625 percent— is hardly insignificant.
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It's up to Congress Advocates of foreign aid are still hoping to avoid the cuts because the White House doesn't set the budget -- Congress does.
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It harmfully exploits misperceptions about U.S. spending on foreign aid, while neutering the federal agencies that wield the soft power tools which Americans strongly support.
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Caputo moved to Russia a few years after the Soviet Union collapsed and he worked for USAID, the US government agency that administers foreign aid.
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This will go through a process in Congress, (which) has already said that they don't want to see massive cuts in diplomacy or foreign aid.
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The United States actually lags behind a number of countries in terms of the percentage we use for foreign aid and that sort of thing.
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A rep for the Microsoft billionaire tells us he was there to discuss innovation in energy, health and education, and American leadership in foreign aid.
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The deal includes the U.S. sending about $230 million in foreign aid every year to help the approximately 2023,000 people of the Western Pacific region.
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Again, he was adopting a position at odds with that taken by Trump, whose first budget cuts foreign aid and hikes investments in the military.
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The administration has proposed a 31 percent cut to the budget of United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which administers most American foreign aid.
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Of some $1.9 billion pledged in foreign aid for the current fiscal year, which began last July, the state has not spent even one-twentieth.
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President Donald Trump has sought to roll back the U.S. foreign aid budget, a move that has been criticized by both Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
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These members often support United States efforts to work through international institutions and prioritize using foreign aid for health security, economic development, and humanitarian purposes.
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Second, rescinding this money means we have far less ability to respond to the China challenge and to get countries off the foreign aid dole.
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The Wall Street Journal and BuzzFeed have previously reported Pence's interest in increasing foreign aid to Christians and his displeasure with USAID's activities in Iraq.
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In 2013, the last year for which information has been fully reported, Mexico received a $272 million out of $85033 million assigned in foreign aid.
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The House's top appropriator on Thursday raised alarm over the White House budget office's freeze on foreign aid funds, saying the move could be illegal.
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This exceeds the total amount spent annually by the federal government for all discretionary programs, which includes defense, education, transportation, foreign aid and the environment.
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See for yourself Maduro has both rejected foreign aid and called for medical relief, though the situation on the ground shows no signs of changing.
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One thing the nine countries voting against the resolution have in common is their dependence on US foreign aid as a percentage of their GDP.
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The Pentagon has supported for years Indian engagement with Afghanistan's debilitated economy, which relies heavily on foreign aid, even if it required operating via Iran.
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While President Nicolás Maduro has refused to accept foreign aid to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis, Venezuela's Democratic Unity coalition welcomes international support and cooperation.
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Afghanistan remains heavily dependant on foreign aid, and the prolonged conflict has kept most private investment away, with disastrous effects for the economy, he said.
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As the world's largest investor in global health, the U.S. government should take pride in the lifesaving role our foreign aid has made to millions.
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Daily life, commerce, and diplomacy are typically conducted behind walls, with many diplomats and foreign aid workers no longer allowed to leave their fortified compounds.
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In 2013, Mr. Jammeh severed ties with Taiwan, which diplomats said was the result of Taiwan's refusal to increase its foreign aid to his country.
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Both Republicans and Democrats have protected foreign aid for decades, calling it an essential diplomatic tool that helps prevent military conflicts by promoting economic growth.
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"It has grown enormously over the last decades, especially due to foreign aid," the authors write, although it's not clear when the story takes place.
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Nationally and globally, through restrictions on foreign aid, women's reproductive rights are endangered by administration officials warping policy to their beliefs, regardless of the law.
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The move was a significant reversal for Mr. Trump, who has harshly criticized foreign aid from the opening moments of his presidential campaign in 2015.
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The revelations play into arguments by some Conservative lawmakers that Britain, struggling to finance its health care system, should drastically scale back its foreign aid.
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He would stop talking about a wall and slashing foreign aid and start talking about Central American development, a possible Marshall Plan for the region.
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Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director and now the acting White House chief of staff, is particularly skeptical of the value of foreign aid.
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It will receive more than $335 million in foreign aid in the 2019 fiscal year, and received over $337 million in the 2018 fiscal year.
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The White House has sought repeatedly to slash foreign aid since Trump took office in January 2017, but Congress has pushed back against such plans.
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After scrapping the plan to slash $4 billion in foreign aid, Trump said his team would look to find cuts elsewhere in the aid budget.
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The emperor, though, had been a powerful proponent of African anticolonialism, a leader adept at securing foreign aid for his country and pushing education initiatives.
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In this first week in office, the president cut foreign aid to organizations that perform abortion or even discuss it as a reproductive health option.
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It revised the fees steeply upwards last month, however, requiring some foreign aid workers to pay $4,000 for a permit — 16 times the old rate.
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But little foreign aid money is devoted to them, even though the first two kill many newborns and worm diseases make toddlers anemic and stunted.
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Foreign aid is in the best interest of our nation; it is a global investment portfolio designed to promote interests of everyone in our country.
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The leaders of El Salvador, Haiti and Nicaragua should not be receiving preferential foreign aid from the U.S. while also propping up Maduro's burgeoning dictatorship.
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Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, suggested that Mr. Trump's proposal to reduce spending on foreign aid would be unwise for fiscal and security reasons.
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The House impeachment inquiry centers on Trump pressuring Ukraine's president to investigate political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter in exchange for foreign aid.
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Since my host father works for the Peace Corps and Trees for the Future, I get to learn a lot about sustainability and foreign aid.
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The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee is calling President Trump's proposed defense budget "shortsighted" for slashing foreign aid to boost defense spending.
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When it comes to issues on foreign policy and national security, I would say I'm part of the bipartisan consensus that foreign aid is good.
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China's Ministry of Commerce, which manages the country's foreign aid spending, was the worst performer, followed by the foreign ministries of the UAE and Japan.
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JUBA (Reuters) - War-ravaged South Sudan has hiked work permit fees 100-fold for foreign aid workers to $10,000, officials said, despite suffering from famine.
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The new budget will involve unprecedented cuts in foreign aid, an essential tool that currently accounts for less than 1 percent of the federal budget.
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Perhaps, but his decision to withhold hundreds of millions in foreign aid from Ukraine just before likely created more pressure than any phone call could.
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The wars that we're fighting aren't traditional ones, and they hinge on the kind of diplomacy and foreign aid that Trump is giving short shrift.
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Devin Nunes, and the White House Office of Management and Budget -- the office that impeachment witnesses say was directed to halt foreign aid to Ukraine.
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By Tuesday, US President Donald Trump had weighed in with a warning, threatening to cut foreign aid to Honduras if the group didn't turn back.
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Cash cow NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen.
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That strategy was based on four principles: stable money, no foreign aid, first-world competitiveness and the protection of private property and the public's safety.
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The World Bank's priorities — like combating climate change and engaging in foreign aid — also tend to be at odds with those of the Trump administration.
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That plan has faced skepticism in the White House, where Trump and several top aides have criticized years of American military intervention and foreign aid.
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But because the economy is so large, Americans still provide more foreign aid in total than any other country, and aid cuts do cause disruptions.
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Even if these twitter missives are more political theater than administration foreign policy, these threats to withdraw foreign aid in a tit-for-tat manner can have harmful consequences for the U.S. First, the core function of foreign aid is to build partnerships over time, and foster collaboration to solve urgent global challenges when they arise – especially before they can reach our own shores.
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But she is also expanding leftward by promising to reignite industrial policy, discipline greedy bosses and keep spending at least 0.7% of GDP on foreign aid.
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The administration then attempted to avoid spending the money allocated for foreign aid using a so-called "rescission" package, Reuters reported, but later dropped the plan.
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As the country tries to wean itself off foreign aid, pomegranate is targeted as one of the crops that could help bolster the economy through exports.
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This manifested in different ways, ranging from relatively benign policies like foreign aid to deeply controversial ones like CIA support for military coups against elected leaders.
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President Trump could require any increased foreign aid he gives to Mexico to go to border security, fighting drug cartels in Mexico, and buying American goods.
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The South American country closed its border with Colombia in February as the Venezuela opposition party sought to import foreign aid to the South American country.
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This raises an obvious question: If we're spending this much on foreign aid, couldn't we just eliminate poverty by giving the money directly to poor people?
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This week, however, church leaders across a broad ideological and theological spectrum came together to oppose the Trump administration's proposal to slash the foreign aid budget.
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It may come as an unwelcome surprise to many Americans that the same is also true for humanitarian aid, an important subcomponent of overall foreign aid.
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Cuts to the State Department's budget and foreign-aid programmes would probably reduce America's influence in the world and undermine attempts to make the world stable.
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Total foreign aid accounts for less than 2 percent of the federal budget, and the assistance being considered for cuts accounts for an even smaller percentage.
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Lawmakers, again including some of Trump's closest Republican allies, had rejected his plan to cut spending on diplomacy and foreign aid by more than 20 percent.
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Working with parliament will be crucial to his ability to meet the expectations of his voters and also pass reforms needed to keep foreign aid flowing.
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As far as 2016 is concerned, the odds of progress are looking good on one topic where you'd never expect the parties to agree: foreign aid.
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Clinton praised Defense Secretary James Mattis for making the case for maintaining US foreign aid funding, despite a budget request by Trump that would cut it.
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Iranian officials said foreign aid covers only about 6 percent of the cost of hosting the Afghan refugee community and said the EU should do more.
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And that brings us back to Flynn, who could have complicated this foreign aid cutting package with the revelation of his work as a foreign lobbyist.
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The number includes not only foreign aid, but private sector investments as well, and there's a lot of wiggle room over what counts towards the total.
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Jordan is working hard to meet its international obligations to refugees from neighboring countries, and the United States provides significant foreign aid for refugee programs there.
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So at a cost of less than 1% of our entire federal budget, foreign aid is a bargain, given its ability to bolster our national security.
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We don't yet know what Trump's proposed 40 percent cut in foreign aid would mean for Iraq, but now is the wrong time to pull away.
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This money should have helped governments pay for schools, roads, hospitals and other critical measures to fight poverty without needing a dime of U.S. foreign aid.
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" In various speeches, he declared that the United States should "stop sending foreign aid to countries that hate us" and should instead "invest in our infrastructure.
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This includes Trump's hardline stance on Syria in general in which the president has proposed cuts to foreign aid, including the U.N. and agencies helping refugees.
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Ineffective foreign-aid policies that ignore basic scientific analysis will undermine our ability to support global development, waste valuable resources, and ultimately hurt the American people.
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While government support has been sparse, Russia could have made headway on its fight against AIDS with foreign aid money, but continues to refuse help. СПИД.
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As international forces have withdrawn and the billions of dollars in foreign aid that once poured in have dried up, Afghanistan's battered agricultural economy has struggled.
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In August Hamdok said Sudan needed $8 billion in foreign aid over the next two years to cover its import bill and help rebuild its economy.
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