Trump’s aides tried to walk back his Gaza takeover plan
Middle East leaders and key U.S. partners around the world quickly opposed President Trump’s proposal to force Palestinians out of Gaza and take it over. Amid the global alarm, top administration officials sought yesterday to soften elements of Trump’s plan.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested that Trump was proposing only to clear out and rebuild Gaza and not to take it over. Steve Witkoff, the special envoy to the Middle East, told Republican senators during a closed-door meeting that Trump “doesn’t want to put any U.S. troops on the ground, and he doesn’t want to spend any U.S. dollars at all” on Gaza, according to a senator.
In the early 1980s, Forethought, the start-up behind PowerPoint software, was about to run out of money, and NEA’s partners refused to pony up more. So Mr. Kramlich convinced his wife that they should pause work on the house they were building on Stinson Beach and use the cash to keep the company alive instead. The gamble paid off: In 1987, Microsoft bought Forethought for $14 million, and PowerPoint went on to become one of the world’s best-known software programs.
The idiom "pony up" is an informal North American English phrasal verb that means to pay for something, especially when it's a specific amount of money. For example, "Each guest had to pony up $40 for the meal".
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