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Republicans rejected a Democratic bid to re-up PEPFAR via the annual defense policy bill.

Last week’s Senate Appropriations Committee markup revealed a vast gulf dividing the Capitol with respect to development and diplomacy funding for the coming fiscal year. The two chambers’ State and Foreign Operations spending bill toplines are more than $9 billion apart, with the House coming in at $52.5 billion and the Senate at $61.6 billion—differences cutting across a wide range of programs and priorities. In light of such a gap and plenty of policy discrepancies to boot, the fundamen...

At the G20 Finance Ministerial in India on July 17th, World Bank President Ajay Banga announced a new portfolio guarantee program with impressive leverage—$5 billion of donor guarantees that could generate $30 billion in lending over 10 years. This announcement was part of a package of new financial measures, including hybrid capital and better accounting for callable capital. Of this package, we think the portfolio guarantee program is the most promising.

Republicans rejected a Democratic bid to re-up PEPFAR via the annual defense policy bill.

I had not heard this. And what I am hearing is pretty disturbing as, unsurprisingly, it completely screws American businesses. It takes the concepts of globalism and equity, then combines them while s...

WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Co-Chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, and U.S. Senator

CARE commends Senate Appropriations Committee's progress towards FY24 State and Foreign Operations (SFOPS) funding; calls for urgent bipartisan action to fund lifesaving global programs.

UNRWA has long been a target of criticism from Republicans and some Israeli officials who say its work is compromised by links to Hamas.

APN's mission is to educate and persuade the American public and its leadership to support and adopt policies that will lead to comprehensive, durable, Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab peace, based on a two-state solution, guaranteeing both peoples security, and consistent with U.S. national interests.

Texas lawmakers want White House to expedite new international bridges and expansion projects