{"id":31502,"date":"2025-01-25T00:58:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T00:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/us-orders-halt-to-virtually-all-foreign-aid-except-for-israel-and-egypt\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T00:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T00:58:02","slug":"us-orders-halt-to-virtually-all-foreign-aid-except-for-israel-and-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/us-orders-halt-to-virtually-all-foreign-aid-except-for-israel-and-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"US orders halt to virtually all foreign aid except for Israel and Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internal memo to US state department staff explicitly makes exceptions for military assistance to Israel and Egypt<\/p>\n<p>The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has ordered a halt to virtually all US foreign aid, but made an exception for funding to Israel and Egypt, according to an internal memo to staff at the US state department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo new funds shall be obligated for new awards or extensions of existing awards until each proposed new award or extension has been reviewed and approved \u2026 as consistent with President Trump\u2019s agenda,\u201d said the memo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/24\/foreign-aid-israel-egypt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal memo to US state department staff explicitly makes exceptions for military assistance to Israel and Egypt The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has ordered a halt to virtually all US foreign aid, but made an exception for funding to Israel and Egypt, according to an internal memo to staff at the US state department. &#8230; <a title=\"US orders halt to virtually all foreign aid except for Israel and Egypt\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/us-orders-halt-to-virtually-all-foreign-aid-except-for-israel-and-egypt\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US orders halt to virtually all foreign aid except for Israel and Egypt\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}