“Foreign aid” on The Daily Caller

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama says America’s ability to provide aid to other countries partly depends on whether Congress passes his jobs bill. (more)

Thirteen years ago today, al Qaeda bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 innocent Americans and Africans, injuring countless others and leaving the embassies themselves in ruins. (more)

President Barack Obama’s announcement last month that U.S. forces will begin a phased withdrawal from Afghanistan was welcomed by an increasingly impatient Congress and public. The president’s speech followed on the heels of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee report that urged the administration to rethink its assistance program in Afghanistan and cast doubt on the survivability of U.S. development projects in the aftermath of a major troop drawdown. Both of these events highlight the importance to U.S. national security of having a strong foreign assistance capacity to address underlying conditions that breed extremism in places like Afghanistan. (more)

President Obama’s call for $2 billion in loan assistance to Egypt has left many political figures scratching their heads as they try to figure out why a debt-ridden U.S. would commit that much money to a country whose new government may not end up friendly to America. (more)

Remember that $100-billion-per-year “climate adaptation fund” that the Obama administration was so keen on at the amusingly disastrous Copenhagen Climate Summit in December 2009? The one that Senate Democrats bemoaned wouldn’t have a funding stream with the collapse of Obama’s cap-and-trade energy tax scheme? (more)

Hamas, the Palestinian terror group that runs Gaza, is mourning the death of Osama bin Laden. He is a “martyr” to these jihadists. And Hamas has just concluded a pact with the so-called Palestinian Authority (PA), or Fatah, the group that the U.S. recognizes and to whom we give lavish foreign aid. We are currently giving $600 million a year to the so-called Palestinian Authority. (more)

With a Congressional budget showdown all but inevitable, U.S. foreign assistance is once again on the chopping block. As two long-serving Republican former members of Congress, we believe the fiscal situation in this country demands bold action. However, we are deeply concerned about the House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ recent proposal to make sweeping cuts to the budgets of the State Department and at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). (more)

SHIKARPUR, Pakistan (AP) — Victims of Pakistan’s deadly floods mobbed relief trucks carrying food Tuesday and authorities in the northwest warned of famine unless the region’s farmers got immediate help with planting new crops. (more)

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million — more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said Monday. (more)

President Obama met Haitian President René Préval at the White House on Wednesday with a promise of further American aid for the Caribbean nation. According to U.S.A.I.D., the United States to date has donated $712.7 million — far more than any other country — to Haiti in the wake of its Jan. 12 earthquake. Also on Wednesday, the USNS Comfort floating hospital left Hispaniola’s waters after almost seven weeks in the region. A total of 871 patients were treated and 843 surgical procedures were performed aboard. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Earthquake survivors have brought food and some medicine to dying residents in the rubble of a Haiti nursing home, but large-scale foreign aid had yet to reach dozens there Monday. (more)

PARIS (AP) — The United Nations must investigate and clarify the dominant U.S. role in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, a French minister said Monday, claiming that international aid efforts were about helping Haiti, not “occupying” it. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti president asks international donors to coordinate better, not squabble over quake aid. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are in desperate need of drinking water because of an earthquake-damaged municipal pipeline and truck drivers either unable or unwilling to deliver their cargo. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Haiti has received billions of dollars in taxpayer and private aid from the United States and others, yet is so poor that few homes had safe drinking water, sewage disposal or electricity even before the earthquake. With sympathetic donors around the world sending money, making sure that aid is spent properly will be a challenge. (more)

A glance at some of the international aid pledges for victims of the earthquake in Haiti: (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Turning pickup trucks into ambulances and doors into stretchers, Haitians are frantically struggling to save those injured in this week’s earthquake while hoping foreign governments will quickly begin sending in aid. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake flattened the president’s palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. Officials feared thousands — perhaps more than 100,000 — may have perished but there was no firm count. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake flattened the president’s palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. Officials feared thousands — perhaps more than 100,000 — may have perished but there was no firm count. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake flattened the president’s palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. Officials feared hundreds of thousands may have perished but there was no firm count. (more)