U.S. House passes cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid
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The Senate voted 51 to 48 to claw back about $9 billion in federal funding that lawmakers had approved for foreign aid and public broadcasting. The so-called rescissions were made at the request of the White House, which has sought to codify spending cuts put forward by Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort, the Department of Government Efficiency.
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The State Department says its destruction of 500 metric tons of emergency food aid that was stored in a warehouse in the Middle East was required because it had expired.
For the past three years carpenter Matt has been delivering aid to the city of Sumy, which is on the front line of the war in Ukraine. Every six weeks he makes the 2,000-mile (3,219km) trip from his home in Oxfordshire, working extra days so he can afford to regularly drive to the warzone.
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State Department expects to distribute 59,305 metric tons of food aid amid reports that 500 tons were incinerated, with officials confirming all food expiring soon is accounted for.
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