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Early this morning, the #Senate approved a White House request to cancel about $8B in funding for #ForeignAid & $1B for #PublicBroadcasting. #Congress had previously authorized the spending.

This matters to the #aid programs & local news outlets that rely on that money. But it also matters because the #Constitution gives Congress the “power of the purse” — the power to decide what the government spends.

#SeparationOfPowers #Constitution #law
nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/poli

The New York Times · Senate Approves Trump’s Bid to Cancel Foreign Aid and Funds for NPR and PBS StationsBy Catie Edmondson

In the past hour, eight people who had been tasked with securing aid trucks have been reported killed. As many of 20 trucks were on their way to designated areas in the northern part of the Strip and were targeted by a drone strike. Body parts were scattered and civil defence members had to collect them.

This is unfortunately routine for those who attempt to secure aid trucks, which will end up in the hands of looters and gangs supported largely by the Israeli military

@palestine
#Gaza
#aid

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A stampede outside an #aid distribution center in southern #Gaza killed at least 20 people who were waiting for #food on Wednesday, acc/to #Palestinian & aid ofcls, the latest in a string of deadly episodes around sites run by the #US & #Israel backed #GazaHumanitarianFoundation.

The deaths bring the number of people killed while trying to get food from the organization to about 700 since late May, according to data provided this week by the #UN.

What a Smaller #Education Department Is Doing Under Trump

"Cuts have hit most of the department’s main functions, which include investigating civil rights complaints, providing #financial #aid, researching what works in education, testing #students and disbursing federal funding."

nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/trum

The Department of Education in Washington, D.C.
The New York Times · What to Know About Trump’s Cuts to the Education DepartmentBy Dana Goldstein

Israelis block attempt to block aid trucks entering Gaza

Israeli media outlets have broadcast footage of dozens of activists, including family members of Israeli captives held in Gaza, closing the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge crossing today in protest against the continued entry of humanitarian aid convoys into Gaza.

@palestine
#Gaza
#Israel
#aid

“The third issue is the mechanism for distributing aid. Are we going to legislate the death traps that everyone sees in the agreement? Are we going to say we agree to the death traps remaining? Today, so many people were killed while trying to get aid. No one can agree to this.”

“We want to protect our people, not to offer these victims as easy prey for Israeli planes that bomb and kill them all the time.”

al-Hindi

@palestine
#Gaza
#aid
#negotiations

#Ceasefire talks in #Gaza are stalling over the extent of #Israel forces' withdrawal from the #Palestinian enclave….

In Gaza, medics said 17 people trying to get #food #aid were killed Saturday when Israeli troops opened fire, the latest #MassShooting around a #US backed *aid* distribution system that the #UN says has resulted in 800 people killed in 6 weeks.

#Trump #JohnnieMoore #GazaHumanitarianFoundation #GHF #evangelical #Zionism
reuters.com/world/middle-east/