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Trump’s State Department Blocks Transfer of Funds to Pallies

Wednesday, 25 January 2017, 11:19 BFH Uncategorized 29

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JERUSALEM, Israel – In a stunning reversal, the U.S. State Department froze $221 million designated by former President Barack Obama to the Palestinian Authority on his last full day in office. The funds had previously been budgeted to the Palestinian Authority but blocked by Congress. Obama released the funds just hours before Trump was sworn-in as president.

Officials at the State Department decided to freeze the transfer until the appointment of former Secretary of State John Kerry’s replacement. Trump’s nomination, Exxon CEO Ray Tillerson, generated some controversy because of his business dealings with countries considered human rights violators and concern that he might show favoritism to his Russian contacts.

On Monday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee endorsed his nomination, albeit split along party lines, paving the way for confirmation by the full Senate.

The 11-10 vote came after Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and John McCain, R-Ariz., decided to back the former Exxon Mobil Corp. chairman’s nomination. During the confirmation hearings, Rubio was reportedly the most vocal of the three senators.

Representatives Ed Royce, R-Calif., who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Kay Granger, R-Texas, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, blocked the funding packages in 2015 and 2016 in response to the P.A.’s efforts to join international organizations.

Granger said she’d “worked to make sure that no American taxpayer dollars would fund the Palestinian Authority unless very strict conditions were met,” israel national news  reported on its website, Arutz Sheva.

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29 Comments on Trump’s State Department Blocks Transfer of Funds to Pallies

  6. The democrats showing their true “genius”. By trying to sneak $221 million to the Palestinian Authority, they’ve set the stage for a permanent cutoff for funds. And with Trump making friendly overtures to Russia, who are those raghead pigs going to get foreign aid from now, China?

  13. DJT has done more in two and change workdays than obongo and W did in 16 years–and yes, I know that W had a major catastrophe on his plate that cut into his agenda.
    Amazing what can happen when someone who isn’t a politician has the reins.

  17. What’s interesting is that State Department officials decided to do this on their own. It’s almost like they’re a little nervous about their jobs. Anyway, screw the Palestinians. Their leadership says one thing to the west then turns around and tells quite a different thing (which usually ends up as kill all the jews, destroy Israel and take all their stuff because you’ve been cheated, see it’s all in the hostroy books we wrote) which the media never report on. After six or more generations of being brainwashed I think they be a lost cause and the best solution would be to demand from the countries that are hosting the refugee cities that they be given citizenship in that country or no more aid dollars or weapons.

  27. Apparently, there was at least person of goodwill working at the very Swampy State Dept. Let’s give him/her the “Sand in Obama’s Vaseline” award for slow-walking the funds to the bank.

  28. Great job. My great grandchildren don’t have that kind of money. What they may eventually have won’t be enough the way the gov’t gives it away besides they will never be able to pay off their share of the national debt. In fact not even the interest share.

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