{"id":1367288,"date":"2022-03-09T15:39:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T20:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367288"},"modified":"2022-03-09T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T20:40:53","slug":"democrats-double-down-on-wasteful-foreign-aid-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-double-down-on-wasteful-foreign-aid-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Double Down on Wasteful Foreign Aid Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-double-down-on-wasteful-foreign-aid-spending%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367288&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p>The latest version of the Democrats&#8217; $1.5 trillion spending bill being pushed through Congress includes funding for questionable foreign projects, such as &#8220;gender programs&#8221; in Pakistan and democracy building in authoritarian nations.<\/p>\n<p>According to a section of the bill outlining State Department funding for the year, an unspecified portion of the nearly $4 billion available in bilateral economic assistance \u2014 meaning direct transfers from the United States to other countries \u2014 shall &#8220;be made available for programs to promote democracy and for gender programs in Pakistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Up to $200 million of bilateral assistance will go to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The latest version of the Democrats\u2019 $1.5 trillion spending bill being pushed through Congress includes funding for questionable foreign projects, such as \u201cgender programs\u201d in Pakistan and democracy building in authoritarian nations.<\/p>\n<p>According to a section of the bill outlining State Department funding for the year, an unspecified portion of the nearly $4 billion available in bilateral economic assistance \u2014 meaning direct transfers from the United States to other countries \u2014 shall \u201cbe made available for programs to promote democracy and for gender programs in Pakistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Up to $200 million of bilateral assistance will go to the Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund, which the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/10\/22\/fact-sheet-national-strategy-on-gender-equity-and-equality\/\">says<\/a> \u201csupports efforts to address the impact that Covid-19, climate change, conflict and crisis have on the economic security of women and their families.\u201d An additional $50 million will go toward increasing leadership opportunities for women in countries where they face discrimination.<\/p>\n<div class=\"banner_small conntent-banner\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spectatorworld.com\/subscribe-the-dc-diary\/\"><\/a>\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The bill also tasks the US with funding programs for foreign nationals to attend college and other institutes of higher learning in their home countries. It earmarks $15 million for higher education programs in Vietnam, and instructs the State Department to submit a report detailing plans to support higher education for Afghan nationals. No less than $250 million overall will be provided for higher education programs abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of millions of dollars are also made available for democracy building projects in South America. Venezuela would receive $40 million and Nicaragua $15 million for \u201cdemocracy programs\u201d via the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Pelosi deigned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/09\/politics\/house-vote-government-spending-ukraine-aid\/index.html\">strip<\/a> almost $16 billion in Covid relief from the package, after a revolt from members of her party. Government funding is due to expire on Friday, meaning the bill is likely to be ushered through without much time for members to scrutinize its contents. \u201cIt\u2019s just dysfunctional to have something as large as this and then expect people to vote on it without having the opportunity to review it,\u201d South Dakota senator Mike Rounds told CNN.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest version of the Democrats&#8217; $1.5 trillion spending bill being pushed through Congress includes funding for questionable foreign projects, such as &#8220;gender programs&#8221; in Pakistan and democracy building<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}