“Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday approved a new waiver for lifesaving humanitarian assistance in a memo sent to aid groups amid widespread confusion over which programs in the roughly $60 billion foreign aid budget would be exempt from the Trump administration’s freeze on U.S. assistance,” the Washington Post reports.
Rubio Backtracks on Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze
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