Trump signs $9B rescissions package into law, revoking funding for foreign aid, NPR
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President Trump signs $9 billion rescissions package cutting funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, marking another legislative victory for his administration.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
The rescissions package pulls back nearly $8 billion in funding Congress already approved for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a previously independent agency that provided impoverished countries aid and offered development assistance.
However, the Trump administration has faced layoffs and has been absorbed into the State Department amid concerns from the Trump administration that the organization did not advance U.S. core interests.
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