Obama Administration Reportedly Gave $221M to Palestinians Hours Before Trump Inauguration

January 23, 2017

    President Barack Obama meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, Sept. 24, 2014

The Obama administration reportedly sent $221 million to the Palestinian Authority on the morning of Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The administration told Congress that it would send the funds hours before Trump was sworn in Friday, an anonymous State Department official and several congressional aides said, according to The Associated Press.