House Democrats urged President Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio to lift the foreign assistance freeze mandated by an executive order from earlier this week, cutting off most U.S-funded foreign development projects around the world.

The Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.), the ranking member of the House National Security, Department of State and Related Programs (NSRP) Appropriations Subcommittee, penned a letter to Rubio, asking him to remove the pause which placed lives “at risk” and “undermines American........

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