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Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump has been burning through millions of dollars as he faces an onslaught of legal bills from the investigations threatening his presidential election bid -- with some sources of funding drying up fast. The former US president is hardly strapped for cash, as his joint fundraising committee brought in $54 million during the first half of 2023 -- more than any of his Republican primary rivals in next year's election. But critics say new financial filings demonstrate how his spiraling legal woes are making a significant dent in a war chest that could be going to TV sp...
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Washington (AFP) - US lawmakers approved a sweeping annual spending package Friday that includes $45 billion in Ukraine aid and reforms to election law aimed at avoiding a repeat of last year's assault on the Capitol. The $1.7 trillion blueprint passed by senators on Thursday was rubber-stamped by the House of Representatives just hours ahead of a midnight deadline to keep the federal government open -- although a damaging holiday season shutdown was never a serious threat. "This bill is further proof that Republicans and Democrats can come together to deliver for the American people, and I'm ...
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Washington (AFP) - Lawmakers were scrambling Wednesday to complete work on a sweeping $1.7 trillion spending package before a massive winter storm expected to unleash chaos on airports and roads. The government would run out of funding if Friday's deadline passed with no agreement, although the threat of a damaging festive shutdown is only theoretical, since Congress can pass a stop-gap deal to keep the lights on until January. Senators hope to approve the package -- covering the financial year ending in September 2023 -- before the end of the day, sending it to the House of Representatives f...
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Paris (AFP) - Rich countries have over-reported finance to help countries adapt to the impacts of climate change by $20 billion over the last decade, leaving at-risk communities drastically underfunded, a new analysis showed Thursday. Under the 2015 Paris climate deal, countries are required to boost funding to hard-hit governments, evenly split between cash to mitigate global warming and to help them adapt to future climate impacts. Developed countries promised to provide $50 billion in annual finance for adaptation by 2020. But official OECD figures show that in 2018 donors committed just $...
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New York (AFP) - The Donald Trump administration on Monday declared the cities of New York, Seattle and Portland, Oregon as jurisidictions "permitting anarchy," threatening to withhold federal aid over civil unrest.The move from the Republican president came as he tries to bolster the "law and order" image he hopes will win him re-election in November.Earlier in September Trump requested the Department of Justice identify municipal governments "permitting anarchy, violence, and destruction in American cities."In recent months anti-racism protests have mushroomed nationwide in response to polic...
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