{"id":85536,"date":"2026-08-18T09:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85536"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:02:38","slug":"after-cuts-trump-administration-gives-2b-to-christian-groups-for-global-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/after-cuts-trump-administration-gives-2b-to-christian-groups-for-global-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"After Cuts, Trump Administration Gives $2B To Christian Groups For Global Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>National Catholic Reporter:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2026\/08\/united-states-announces-historic-2-billion-in-health-and-humanitarian-assistance-to-faith-based-organizations#:~:text=Faith%2DBased%20Organizations-,United%20States%20Announces%20Historic%20%242%20Billion%20in%20Health,Assistance%20to%20Faith%2DBased%20Organizations&amp;text=Today%2C%20the%20United%20States%20announced,humanitarian%20assistance%20around%20the%20world.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced plans<\/a>\u00a0to provide close to $2 billion in funding to faith-based and community groups for health and humanitarian assistance in more than a dozen countries, drawing praise from groups receiving funding and criticism from others for its emphasis on funding Christian organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The assistance, which comes after the administration&#8217;s massive cuts to global support once offered by the U.S. Agency for International Development, is part of commitments\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/america-first-global-health-strategy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detailed<\/a>\u00a0in the America First Global Health Strategy released by the State Department last September. It focuses on prioritizing American interests while promoting assistance in saving lives, according to the administration, which announced the funding on Thursday (Aug. 6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From National Catholic Reporter: The Trump administration\u00a0announced plans\u00a0to provide close to $2 billion in funding to faith-based and community groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85537,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85536\/revisions\/85537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}