{"id":191222,"date":"2025-02-12T14:34:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T12:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-u-s-govt-cancels-u-s-17m-support-to-liberia\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T14:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T12:34:48","slug":"liberia-u-s-govt-cancels-u-s-17m-support-to-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-u-s-govt-cancels-u-s-17m-support-to-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: U.S. Govt Cancels U.S.$17m Support to Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The government of the United States, through its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has announced the cancellation of a $17 million United States Agency for International Development (USAID) project aimed at offering tax policy advice to Liberia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Elon Musk, head of DOGE, announced the cancellation of the support on Monday, February 10. He used the social media platform X to express his concerns about the allocation, asking, &#8220;Why would anyone believe that this is a wise use of YOUR tax&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502120316.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of the United States, through its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has announced the cancellation of a $17 million United States Agency for International Development (USAID) project aimed at offering tax policy advice to Liberia. Elon Musk, head of DOGE, announced the cancellation of the support on Monday, February 10. He used the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661340:7d849479f108bedf677d9043e8418a97:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,10157,4357,4712,1107,257,254,6096,2282,49319],"class_list":["post-191222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cancels","tag-govt","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-17m"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661340:7d849479f108bedf677d9043e8418a97:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}