Congress rejects White House request for $175 million to advance Mideast peace plan
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(Worthy News) – The U.S. Congress rejected a request for $175 million to be spent on pushing ahead with President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, a bipartisan spending bill published Monday showed.
In March, the White House sent its budget proposal to Congress, including a sum for what the administration called a “Diplomatic Progress Fund” that would give Trump more flexibility in Middle East diplomacy. The budget proposal explicitly stated that the money would most likely be invested in aid for the Palestinians.
After Washington cut aid to the Palestinian Authority the fund was to be kept as a pool to tap into if relations with them were to improve. [ Source: YNet News (Read More…) ]
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