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Trump, Public broadcasting and Foreign Aid

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Congress Approves Trump’s Plan Clawing Back Foreign Aid, Public Media Funding
W ASHINGTON—The GOP-controlled Congress canceled $9 billion in federal spending for foreign aid and public broadcasting, following through on President Trump’s efforts to defund the programs and overcoming some resistance among Republican lawmakers.

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House passes Trump's cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid; next stop president's desk
The House Is Poised to OK Trump's $9 Billion Cut to Public Broadcasting and Foreign Aid
The Latest: House prepares to advance cuts on public broadcasting and foreign aid
The House is expected to approve President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion in already appropriated funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid Thursday evening.

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US Senate approves $9bn cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting funds
Senate Passes Trump's Spending Cuts To Public Broadcasting, Foreign Aid
US Senate Pushes Toward Aid, Public Broadcasting Cuts Sought by Trump
Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine voted against moving the legislation closer to passage.

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Senate sends Trump’s DOGE cuts package to the House as deadline to pass it closes in
The Latest: Senate passes $9 billion in spending cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid

Trump, Eswatini and Africa

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‘Not Trump’s dumping ground’: Outrage over arrival of foreign US deportees in tiny African nation
Across Africa, and in the tiny nation of Eswatini, fury has erupted over the arrival of foreign deportees from the United States, after its government confirmed that migrants described by a Department of Homeland security spokesperson as “depraved monsters” had been sent to its prisons.

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Trump administration sends deportees to tiny African nation Eswatini
US Deports Immigrants From Jamaica, Cuba and Other Countries to the African Kingdom of Eswatini
US sends migrants to Eswatini as it steps up deportation campaign
Nigeria’s foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar said last week that Washington had put “considerable pressure” on several countries, including Nigeria, to accept deportees but that Nigeria already had 230mn ...

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US says it has deported five 'barbaric' migrants to Eswatini
The US sends third-country deportees to the small African kingdom of Eswatini
US sends third-country deportees under secrecy to the small African kingdom of Eswatini
Political parties are effectively banned and pro-democracy groups have said for years that Mswati III has crushed political dissent, sometimes violently.

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Trump administration expands third-country deportation program, sending 5 men to tiny Eswatini
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DHS sends migrants to Eswatini in new 3rd-country deportation
House passes Trump's rescissions request after Epstein fallout delays vote
House Republicans approved a package after midnight Friday to claw back $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting funding, sending it to President Trump's desk.Congress beat a Friday end-of-day deadline to pass the bill,
‘Enforcing Trump’s call for justice’: Read full statement as US designates LeT proxy TRF as terrorist organisation
The Resistance Front (TRF) had claimed responsibility for the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on April 22 that had killed 26 people.
California sues to challenge Trump's $4 billion high-speed rail clawback
By David Shepardson and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday vowed to fight the "illegal" move by President Donald Trump's administration to cancel some $4 billion in federal grants for the state's ambitious but much-delayed high-speed rail project.
Brazil’s President Lula says Trump was ‘not elected to be emperor of the world,’ as US-Brazil spat escalates
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has hit back at Donald Trump’s tariff threats, saying that his American counterpart was elected as the leader of the United States and “not to be the emperor of the world.
White House: Russia will face "very tough" duties and sanctions from the United States
Russia will face "very tough" duties and secondary sanctions from the United States if no ceasefire agreement or peace deal on Ukraine is reached in 50 days, White House spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said at a briefing.
Trump nominating former Delta pilot to international aviation post
President Donald Trump is nominating former Delta Air Lines pilot Jeffrey Anderson to serve as U.S. ambassador to the International Civil Aviation Organization, the White House said on Thursday, in a move opposed by a major airline pilots' union.
Why is Trump unhappy with Fed Chair Jerome Powell, and what does the Federal Reserve do?
President Trump floated the idea of firing Jerome Powell — whom he first appointed Federal Reserve chair — earlier this week, after years of on-and-off criticism over interest rates.
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