{"id":2608,"date":"2025-01-26T02:40:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T02:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/us-freezes-most-foreign-aid-sparing-israel-egypt-and-turkey\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T02:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T02:40:41","slug":"us-freezes-most-foreign-aid-sparing-israel-egypt-and-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/us-freezes-most-foreign-aid-sparing-israel-egypt-and-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"US Freezes Most Foreign Aid, Sparing Israel, Egypt, And Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"T\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The United States has frozen nearly all foreign aid, including aid to Ukraine, under a new directive from the State Department. Israel, Egypt, and Turkey are reportedly exempt from the freeze, potentially for certain types of aid.<\/h2>\n<p>Issued shortly after President Trump&#8217;s inauguration, the directive from Secretary of State emphasizes an &#8220;America First&#8221; approach to foreign aid. It requires review and approval of all new and extended aid packages before any funds are obligated.<\/p>\n<p>This freeze impacts various forms of assistance, including development and military aid. Ukraine, a major recipient of US military aid under the previous Biden administration, will be significantly affected.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<div>\n<strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\nDonald Trump, Egypt, foreign aid, Greece, Israel, Joe Biden, military aid, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2025\/01\/26\/us-freezes-most-foreign-aid-sparing-israel-egypt-and-turkey\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has frozen nearly all foreign aid, including aid to Ukraine, under a new directive from the State Department. Israel, Egypt, and Turkey are reportedly exempt from the freeze, potentially for certain types of aid. Issued shortly after President Trump&#8217;s inauguration, the directive from Secretary of State emphasizes an &#8220;America First&#8221; approach to &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"US Freezes Most Foreign Aid, Sparing Israel, Egypt, And Turkey\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/us-freezes-most-foreign-aid-sparing-israel-egypt-and-turkey\/#more-2608\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Freezes Most Foreign Aid, Sparing Israel, Egypt, And Turkey\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000153344.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}