White House Quietly Blocks Funding For Aid Programs

The Trump administration has quietly prevented millions of dollars in aid from being spent, reports Foreign Policy. 

About $70 million worth of programming was cut from the State Dept.’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor through bureaucratic maneuvers, officials said.

The funds included $10 million for civil society and human-rights work in China and $12 million for Iraq. Four human-rights organizations in China are at risk of shutting down due to the lack of funding, two...