Questions tagged [funding]
Use this tag for questions related to the funding of political groups, movements or projects. If your question relates to funds provided by governments, use the [public-funding] tag.
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Why is Bernie Sanders maximum accepted donation on actblue $5600?
Check here and try to enter a number higher than $5600.
I know this question might be oddly specific, but i have no idea why it would be such an odd number, and not just $5000.
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Why is the United States voluntarily funding the World Health Organization 60 times more than China?
I read on https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-14/trump-says-he-s-halting-payments-to-who-for-data-sharing-failure:
The U.S. has contributed about $893 million to the WHO’s operations ...
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Long term, does Trump's wall cost more than it saves per year?
One of the biggest areas of disagreement on the wall is its cost efficiency.
Republicans claim it will save us money by preventing the need to support illegal immigrants who enter the US, while ...
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Does Black Lives Matter have a hierarchy?
Recently, there has been a lot of news which discusses the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Does BLM have a leader? What is the organization structure, and who directs the protests?
I have been ...
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Does the GOP actually have a formal 'neutrality policy' that this unnamed RNC official describes?
This answer to Why would a former US president's announcement of a reelection bid cut off legal defense funds? in toto:
From the July 28, 2022 Yahoo article, by Cheryl Teh, The RNC has been helping ...
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What kind of project[s] did the US finance at the Wuhan BSL-4 lab?
The Daily Mail has their usual kind of unclear/clickbait article headlined "U.S. government gave $3.7million grant to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny that was performing ...
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Who supports funding of the "Big Three" and who supports funding of NASA?
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A look at this graph (source: Wikipedia), especially after the "Billionaire Space Race", is interesting. We see that the funding for NASA increased somewhere around the moon ...
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Can the US Congress allocate funds conditionally?
Could Congress allocate funds for a project or agency, but add a restriction that the funds cannot be used until some other criteria is met?
For example (purely hypothetically, of course):
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Why is Europe (Germany in particular) apparently paying so little for US troop presence/protection, compared to South Korea?
CNBC wrote in that 2020 about the cost-sharing agreement for US troop presence in South Korea
In the last one-year, cost-sharing agreement, Seoul agreed to pay roughly $900 million and in ...
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Why deliberate NASA authorization bills if NASA doesn't need them?
Spacenews.com's The sound and fury over a NASA authorization bill says that a NASA authorization bill isn't required and most years the US Congress doesn't pass one.
Question: If that's so, then what ...
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Legislation or Constitutional Amendment needed to prevent Government Shutdowns in the US?
If we wanted to create a rule for the government budget that said that would prevent government from NOT leaving the government funded, would it require a constitutional amendment or could/should this ...
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Does Kataib Hezbollah get any funding from the government of Iraq?
I am curious what it means exactly that PMF forces (including Kataib Hezbollah) are
designated [...] as an "independent military formation" within the Iraqi armed forces.
Do they actually ...
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How many Republicans from non-Democratic states would have to side with Democrats to override Trump’s veto?
I'm just curious how hard an override of the veto to restart the goverment is?
Let's say the goverment shutdown keeps going, grows less popular, and neither Trump nor the Democrats are willing to ...
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Why doesn't funding for U.S. government services simply continue at its previous level if a new budget can't be passed?
In the United States, a failure to pass a budget for the new fiscal year results in a government shutdown, during which all government agencies lose funding except those which are funded through other ...
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What is the next portion of the US government that will be shutdown?
Currently, it appears that around 25% of the US government is shutdown. To the best of my understanding, this is because different departments funding expires at different times. What does the ...
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Need of electoral bonds in political funding
What was the need of electoral bonds in India when an entity (individual/company) could have anonymously donated to any political party via electoral trusts? What purpose does it serve which couldn't ...
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What is the interest of US in implementing PEPFAR?
The United States have spent more than 70 billion in funding prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS outside of their country (mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, e.g. as the Presidents Emergency Plan For AIDS ...
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Soviet funding for Communists
Russia has spent over $300 million on influencing foreign elections since 2014, US officials say
How does this amount compare with the money that the USSR spent on supporting various communist parties ...
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Outside the US, are candidates allowed to spend an unlimited amount of money on their own campaigns?
In the US, citizens are only allowed to donate $2500 per election to a single candidate. You can of course donate as much as you want to a Super PAC, but this money would not be directly available to ...
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How to split vote-based funding in the case of multi-party electoral lists?
In designing a system of public funding for political parties, I want part of this funding to reward electoral performance. In order to avoid fairly reward each party, the amount of funding is based ...
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Why is 3/4 of the US federal government unaffected by a shutdown?
I don't understand why the shutdown only affects a portion of the government. Where does the rest get its funding and why isn't it bound by the same dependency on congressional approval?
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How much, in taxes, does a typical American taxpayer pay toward public libraries?
I'm looking for an average or estimation of how much money public libraries cost a typical American taxpayer.
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Are US territories getting the same degree of Federal support without paying as much in taxes?
As I understand it they have no voting ability and while they pay some taxes they are exempt from on of the biggest taxes, income tax. I believe they are other taxes states pay that territories do ...
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Borrowing funds or loans by states(provinces) in India
Can a state government borrow loans or funds from other states in India? If yes, does the Union government or the President need to be involved in this? Is there any limitation to this?
I searched ...
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Can the RNC supplement the security provided by Secret Service and law enforcement and to what extent?
Secret Service and local law enforcement representatives said Sunday
there are no plans to change the security measures for the Republican
National Convention in Milwaukee this week.
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Can Biden disburse 100 million dollars to the Palestinians as aid from already approved programs, or does he have to go to Congress for approval?
According to VOA:
In his remarks, Biden said Israel had agreed that humanitarian assistance could begin to move from Egypt into Gaza and announced $100 million in U.S. aid for Palestinians. He vowed ...
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Does Pakistan have the power to force allied foreign troops to leave the country? [closed]
Recently President Trump had criticised Pakistan over the supposed inaction of Pakistan towards terrorists. The funding is a kind of compensation for military support in form of bases and other things....
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How does the EU decide involvement for conflict prevention, peace and stability for a specific case?
According to this archived map the EU is and has been involved in many projects under the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) umbrella.
A fraction of these projects are related to Conflict ...
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Are huge donations to political campaigns truly useful and a sensible investment?
I've been reminded recently of the huge investments in political campaigns in the last few years (mainly the 2016 US Presidential elections and the UK Brexit referendum) and I was also reading this ...
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How much funding (if any) does the CDC receive from private industry?
Does the CDC receive funding from pharmaceutical companies, or any other non-government agency or company? If so, how much money and from whom?
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Are there any examples of electoral bonds or similar instruments usage in the Western democracies?
After Reading this question I have searched if any Western democracy have used something similar to make political campaign financing more transparent.
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What is the current status of EU payments to Poland (2022-11)?
During a discussion with Polish acquaintances about the current situation in Poland, the topic of EU payments was raised for a moment. The core of the discussion was about the war in Ukraine and I ...
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How much is Lithuania paying/cost-sharing for the US troop presence in their country?
It's been suggested in some comments (and now an answer) to a related Q that the US is expected to demand lest cost sharing from Germany than from South Korea, for US troop presence, because Germany ...
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How and to what extent did lobbyists contribute to Trump/Pence's "next man and first woman" to the Moon? (via Artemis and Commercial Crew programs)
When I first saw the title to Ars Technica's May 16, 2022 Former NASA leaders praise Boeing’s willingness to risk commercial crew I thought it suggested that Boeing and it's troubled Boeing_Starliner ...
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Who funds the Global Public Policy Initiative?
There's this Berlin-based think tank called the Global Public Policy Initiative (GPPI). Their website says they are an "independent" institute, which in layman's terms means they're trying to ...
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