The State Department paralyzed, for 90 days, almost all funds for aid programs abroad, with immediate effect and as a result of an executive order signed by the President Donald Trumpaccording to international press agencies.
For this purpose, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, sent a memo to all US embassies and diplomatic offices in the world, in which the stoppage of the delivery of funds is ordered and put in pause the granting of new assists.
The measure puts programs that depend on the millions of dollars granted by the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), but saves emergency food assistance from the pause, as well as military financing for Israel and Egypt.
In turn – according to Ukrainian media – the new instructions of the State Department do not affect kyiv military support programs.
After his assumption last Monday, Trump signed an executive order that provides freezing for a period of 90 days of those contributions, arguing that “foreign aid and the bureaucracy of the United States are not aligned with US interests and, in many cases They are antithesis ”of US values.
Foreign aid has aroused the spirits of Republicans in Congress and Trump government officials, but financing represents very little of the United States general budget, the Spanish agency recalled EFE.
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The order threatens to quickly stop many of the billions of dollars in projects financed by the United States on health, education, development, labor training, fight against corruption, security and others in various parts of the world, he said An office From the US agency Associated Press (AP).
Washington provides more exterior help than any other country, with an amount of about 60 billion dollars in 2023, or approximately 1% of the US budget, accounted for AP.
A program against HIV acclaimed worldwide, the emergency presidential plan for AIDS relief, known as Pepfar, was among those included in the freezing of expenses, which will last at least three months.
The program is credited AP.
In the United Nations, the deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said that “these are bilateral decisions; However, we hope that those nations that have the ability to generously finance development assistance. ”
For its part, the chain CNN Quote statements of an unidentified government official who acknowledged that although they foresee some cuts they did not expect a “so wide and immediate” pause.
The source said that the pause is incredibly disruptive and that the details of what is announced are “as bad as they can be.”
“The Trump administration is threatening the lives and future of communities in crisis and abandoning the long -standing bipartisan approach of the United States towards foreign assistance that supports people according to their needs, regardless of politics,” he evaluated, by his Part, Abby Maxman, current president and CEO of Oxfam America, a position he has held since 2017.
