@SecRubio continues to scrutinize @StateDept foreign assistance, today cancelling 139 wasteful grants worth $215M including: - $5.2mm to “Media Diversity” for programs like “Get the Trolls Out!” - “an anti-disinformation program” in the United Kingdom - $2.5mm for “advancing critical civic engagement” in Uzbekistan - $2mm for “Expanded Newsroom Sustainability and Engagement” in Moldova - $1mm for “channeling gig workers’ rights” in Brazil - $2.4mm for “Responding to Disinformation Through Creative Content in Belarus” - $1.7mm for “Independent Media for Peace and Democracy” in Europe - $1.5mm for a “Women-led Gendered Approach to Justice and Accountability” - $1.7mm for “BeMediaWise” in Bulgaria - $900k for a “Place for Women to Join to Organize” in Mauritania - $750k for “Building the Migrant Domestic Worker-Led Movement” in Lebanon - $740k for a feminist “Free Expression Initiative”in Tunisia
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