Trump gets his board of peace
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President Trump announces 10 billion dollars for rebuilding Gaza at the first meeting of his "Board of Peace" MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
Amid criticism over the board’s structure and broad mandate, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. defended the board, saying “a new way” was needed to address the situation in Gaza.
Washington Examiner senior columnist Guy Benson said the United Nations has become a “sick joke,” and that the Board of Peace should be an “alternative,” following President Donald Trump’s second meeting with the group.
The Trump administration is planning a new Peace Corps initiative that would send thousands of US science and math graduates abroad to boost foreign countries’ reliance on American technology and reduce global adoption of competing products from China,
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"We can state that Russia is trying to drag out negotiations that could already have reached the final stage."
To anyone who spent time in the old U.S.S.R., President Trump’s newly hatched “Board of Peace” evokes worrying echoes.
The president, hosting the first meeting of the Board of Peace, says the U.S. will put $10 billion toward its Gaza rebuilding effort.