Ballotpedia’s go-to resource on foreign funding in elections, with a breakdown of prohibitions on foreign funding for candidates and ballot measures, and background on the issue.

Congress allocated $50 billion for initiatives aimed at supporting democracy, scholarship programs, U.S. embassy operations and health and humanitarian programs around the world.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces a major defense spending increase, funded by deep cuts to foreign aid—raising concerns about the future of global development and humanitarian efforts. Foreign ...

A proposal in the House version of President Trump’s tax and spending cut bill that could levy a 20 percent tax on foreign investors from countries that “discriminate” against the U.S. has foreign ...

November 20, 2025 - Foreign ownership of agricultural land, once a relatively innocuous regulatory area, has come under scrutiny in recent years as state and federal lawmakers have sought to impose ...

It’s not exactly news that foreign leaders – much like their counterparts in the United States – have concluded that flattery is a necessary prerequisite to doing business with President Donald Trump.

China on Feb. 19 published a "2025 action plan for stabilizing foreign investment" to improve the ability of foreign capital to invest in domestic telecommunication and biotechnology industries, ...

Earlier this month, the Trump administration canceled 83 percent of USAID contracts and continues to dramatically cut back and reorganize U.S. foreign aid programs. Foreign assistance has a bad ...

Investors too often assume that dividends, whether from U.S. companies or foreign corporations, are taxed similarly. Under U.S. tax law, however, that assumption is incorrect and making mistakes can ...