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Top UN official puts faith in Ivanka Trump to lobby father on aid cuts
Source: The Guardian
Top UN official puts faith in Ivanka Trump to lobby father on aid cuts
World Food Programme chief hopes US president’s daughter will help stave off cash crisis putting over a million lives at risk
Daniel Boffey in Brussels
Wednesday 28 June 2017 10.49 BST
The head of the UN World Food Programme has said he is hopeful Ivanka Trump will lobby her father into a U-turn on cuts to humanitarian aid in the face of an urgent cash crisis that is imperilling hundreds of thousands of lives.
David Beasley, a former Republican governor of South Carolina who supported Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, said Congress and the Senate had already defied the new president to ringfence $980m (£764m) for famine relief this year.
Beasley said he believed Trump would now rethink his policy of stripping down funding of peacekeeping and humanitarian aid for 2018, due in part to the president’s “savvy” daughter, with whom he posed for photographs following a meeting earlier this month.
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World Food Programme chief hopes US president’s daughter will help stave off cash crisis putting over a million lives at risk
Daniel Boffey in Brussels
Wednesday 28 June 2017 10.49 BST
The head of the UN World Food Programme has said he is hopeful Ivanka Trump will lobby her father into a U-turn on cuts to humanitarian aid in the face of an urgent cash crisis that is imperilling hundreds of thousands of lives.
David Beasley, a former Republican governor of South Carolina who supported Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, said Congress and the Senate had already defied the new president to ringfence $980m (£764m) for famine relief this year.
Beasley said he believed Trump would now rethink his policy of stripping down funding of peacekeeping and humanitarian aid for 2018, due in part to the president’s “savvy” daughter, with whom he posed for photographs following a meeting earlier this month.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/28/top-un-official-puts-faith-in-ivanka-trump-to-lobby-father-on-aid-cuts
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