White House Scraps Planned Foreign-Aid Cuts: REPORT

The White House decided Thursday not to move forward with a broadly unpopular proposal to cut billions of dollars in foreign aid, according to multiple reports.The Office of Management and Budget had planned a package of $4.3 billion in cuts to foreign aid, but the White House backed off the plan amid concerns that it would jeopardize the sweeping, bipartisan budget deal Congress passed earlier this month.Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Republic