News for 'Bicameral Legislation Increasing Assistance'

'Aid to Pakistan is a recipe of disappointment'

Rediff.com1 Oct 2009

"Our success will depend chiefly on reforms taken in Pakistan by Pakistanis. And I see little in this bill to provide any assurance that such changes are on the way. I fear we are again choosing to be Pakistan's patron rather than its partner," Congressman Gary Ackerman said.

After week's delay, Trump signs $900 bn Covid relief bill

Rediff.com28 Dec 2020

The US president had in past expressed dismay with the $2.3 trillion package that Congress passed Monday, which includes $900 billion in coronavirus relief and $1.4 trillion to fund the government until October, conflating the two bills and saying the spending goals were misguided.