U.S. aid

Sen. Bernie Sanders, pictured at a committee hearing last month, joined Republican senators in blocking aid to Israel and Ukraine. He tells NPR why he thinks support for Israel's military should have strings attached.

Sen. Bernie Sanders says aid to Israel should be conditional, citing the toll on Gaza

12:03pm December 07, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Sanders joined Senate Republicans in blocking an aid bill for Israel and Ukraine on Wednesday. He tells NPR that Israel has the right to go to war with Hamas, but not "against the Palestinian people."

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., delivers remarks at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. House Republicans have since introduced a bill that would give some $14 billion to Israel and cut that same amount from the IRS.

House Republicans aim to pay for Israel aid with cuts to IRS funds

2:00pm October 31, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Democrats want Israel and Ukraine funding to be linked together. House Republicans are proposing a standalone bill with roughly $14 billion for Israel offset with cuts to the Internal Revenue Service.

Palestinian security forces gather in front of the Palestinian Legislative Council building in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in December.

U.S. Ends Funding For Palestinian Security Forces That Counter Militants

2:48pm February 01, 2019

by Daniel Estrin

The U.S. is ceasing aid to the Palestinians as a new anti-terror law takes effect Friday but will continue efforts to coordinate between Palestinians and Israelis.

A father and his daughter cross a street under renovations as part of a U.S. aid grant in the village of al-Badhan, north of Nablus in Israeli occupied West Bank in August 2018.

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Palestinian School And Sewage Projects Unfinished As U.S. Cuts Final Bit Of Aid

5:29pm January 19, 2019

by Daniel Estrin

The White House has blocked efforts to finish U.S.-funded infrastructure projects in the West Bank and Gaza before a Feb. 1 aid cutoff date.

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Two Palestinian girls walk in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip in 2017.

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U.S. Cuts More Than $200 Million In Aid To Palestinians

9:49pm August 24, 2018

by Daniel Estrin

The State Department announced the Trump administration's decision to cut assistance to Palestinians on Friday. It said the money will now be redirected to "high-priority projects elsewhere."

Palestinians receive aid at a United Nations food distribution center in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip this week.

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Trump May Cut Suspended Aid To Palestinians Soon

6:10pm August 10, 2018

by Daniel Estrin

After freezing millions of dollars in assistance, the Trump administration may be on the verge of formally cutting off the aid.

Prisoners including members of Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood wait inside a glass dock during their trial in Cairo on July 28. Egypt's courts have held mass trials of hundreds of defendants, sentencing many of them to death.

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U.S. Military Aid To Egypt Gives A 'Green Light' To Repression, Say Rights Advocates

7:31pm August 08, 2018

by Lama Al-Arian

The Trump administration's release of $195 million for the Middle Eastern nation's security spending, frozen last year over rights concerns, has left experts stunned and deeply worried.

Melvine Ouyo is a reproductive health nurse at Family Health Options Kenya. She visited Washington, D.C., to discuss how the clinic has lost funding because it would not agree to the terms of President Trump's executive order banning U.S. aid to any healt

Kenyan Clinic Rejects Trump Abortion Policy, Loses $2 Million In U.S. Aid

4:08pm May 02, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

The president has banned U.S. aid to any health organization in another country that performs or promotes abortion. Kenya's oldest provider of reproductive health services has already lost funding.

Lilianne Ploumen is a government minister in the Netherlands. "I was in a position to do something," she says of her decision to start the "She Decides" initiative.

$190 Million Raised To Fill Aid Gap Left By Trump's Abortion Rule

5:23pm March 02, 2017

by Nurith Aizenman

When the president took action to block U.S. foreign aid funding of groups linked to abortion, a Dutch government official started fundraising.