{"id":42310,"date":"2018-01-06T15:03:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T10:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42310"},"modified":"2018-01-06T15:03:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T10:03:39","slug":"trump-backs-sen-pauls-plan-to-fund-infrastructure-projects-with-suspended-aid-to-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42310","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs Sen. Paul&#8217;s plan to fund infrastructure projects with suspended aid to Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, Jan. 6 (TNS):<\/strong> President Donald Trump on Saturday issued support for U.S. Sen. Rand Paul&#8217;s proposal to fund infrastructure projects in the U.S. with foreign aid halted from going to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good idea Rand!&#8221; Trump said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42311\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-12.png 645w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-12-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Rand, a Kentucky Republican, said he planned to introduce his proposal soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My bill will take the money that would have gone to Pakistan and put it in an infrastructure fund to build roads and bridges here at home,&#8221; the senator tweeted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42312\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture2-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture2-5.png 497w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture2-5-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. announced plans to end up to $2 billion in security assistance to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department contended that Pakistan had failed to take &#8220;decisive action&#8221; against Taliban militants targeting U.S. personnel in neighboring Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The figure represents about $1 billion in planned military assistance, including $255 million that was placed on hold in August, and about $900 million in Coalition Support Funds inteded to reimburse Pakistan for counterterrorism operations.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, President Trump contended that the U.S. had \u201cfoolishly\u201d given Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years and had gotten nothing in return but \u201clies &amp; deceit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Jan. 6 (TNS): President Donald Trump on Saturday issued support for U.S. Sen. Rand Paul&#8217;s proposal to fund infrastructure projects in the U.S. with foreign aid halted from going to Pakistan. &#8220;Good idea Rand!&#8221; Trump said in a tweet. In a tweet, Rand, a Kentucky Republican, said he planned to introduce his proposal soon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303],"tags":[304,733],"class_list":["post-42310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington","tag-washington","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42313,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42310\/revisions\/42313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}