foreign aid

Writing on Instagram, the star said he would have "respectfully" declined the request, citing a post by British-Ghanian rapper Fuse ODG that criticised foreign aid in Africa.

Labour MP Sarah Champion, chair of parliament's International Development Committee, said she was "relieved" the foreign aid budget would no longer be used to pay Home Office costs for housing asylum seekers.

And they are taking aim at foreign aid and migrants.

Friedman said she would have supported a bipartisan $118-billion border and foreign aid bill in Congress that President Biden supported and that House Republicans killed at the urging of former President Trump.

A bipartisan proposal earlier this year that combined increased funding for border security and foreign aid for Ukraine appeared to be the first breakthrough until it was derailed when Trump urged Republicans to oppose it.