foreign aid

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Recent Examples of foreign aid Trump also halted all foreign aid to South Africa and expelled the country’s Ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool. Gerald Imray, Fortune, 21 May 2025 The administration had already begun freezing foreign aid projects, and early in the meeting, Cromer, a Biden appointee, said something that rattled Gambian officials in the room. Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 15 May 2025 With the Republicans enjoying a majority in both the House and Senate, the courts have emerged as a major impediment to Trump administration policy, and have ruled against the government on a range of issues including the presence of transgender personnel in the military and a foreign aid freeze. James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025 The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, known as PRM, is assuming that function from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the main U.S. foreign aid agency that the Trump administration has been dismantling, say the excerpts reviewed by Reuters. Jonathan Landay, USA Today, 23 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for foreign aid
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Noun
  • Missouri legislators are set to squabble next week over whether to offer state aid for big-ticket sports stadium construction for both the Royals and the Chiefs.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 30 May 2025
  • Emphasizing that each community’s financial situation is different, Delong still said a few factors are hurting nearly all cities and towns: soaring medical insurance premiums for employees, and state aid that never rose to cover the federal pandemic relief funding that’s been going away.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Trained Individuals People who train to increase their breath-holding abilities, like free divers—people who swim or dive beneath the water’s surface to a considerable depth and without assistance from a breathing device–have reportedly been able to hold their breath for three minutes or longer.
    Patty Weasler, Verywell Health, 4 June 2025
  • Time and again, both parties have reinforced systemic inequality through cuts to housing assistance, erosion of the social safety net, and a growing trend to treat housing as a commodity rather than a public good, the book argues.
    Ericka Taylor, NPR, 4 June 2025

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