Rep. Elise Stefanik has pledged to push President Donald Trump’s “America First” stance if confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and roll out a review of U.S. funding critical for U.N. agencies.

Move from the US, which is the world’s biggest donor, will make exceptions for emergency food and military funding for Israel and Egypt

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WWNY) - North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik pledged Tuesday to push President Donald Trump’s “America First” stance if confirmed ... the children’s agency UNICEF and the World Food Program as examples of those that are ...

Elise Stefanik pledged Tuesday to push President Trump’s “America ... World Food Program as examples of those that are “effective.” She said she supported Trump moving to pull U.S. funding from the U.N. World Health Organization in one of his first ...

Health and humanitarian groups around the world were still uncertain on January 29 if and how they could resume work after the United States issued a waiver for “life-saving” assistance in President Donald Trump’s freeze on U.S. foreign aid.

The State Department on Wednesday sought to clarify President Donald Trump's order to freeze and review foreign development aid after the top U.S. diplomat blunted some of the chaos that ensued with an emergency order that could shield the world's largest HIV program from the 90-day funding freeze.

Groups helping victims of Myanmar’s turmoil are struggling to provide assistance after the United States placed a 90-day freeze on nearly all foreign aid, an organization said, as the United Nations warned of looming hunger five years after the military ousted an elected government.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued the waiver on Tuesday night after aid groups worldwide warned that the blanket ban on foreign aid funding and activity for 90 days had put millions of lives at risk.

President defends foreign aid suspension after Secretary of State Marco Rubio's emergency exemption for lifesaving programs

With Colombian anti-narcotrafficking helicopters idle for want of fuel and news outlets in Ukraine threatened by closure, aid organisations and governments around the world are frantically trying to understand how the abrupt freeze of US foreign aid will affect their activities.

Despite a waiver by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, many development assistance and cooperation programmes are on hold. The US wants to reassess funding to see if they are in line with the new Tr

If it hadn’t come through, we still had sufficient stocks in the short term and hoped that Government would plan to bridge the gap in medium and long term