Trump suspends US foreign assistance for 90 days pending reviews
Source: Associated Press
Trump suspends US foreign assistance for 90 days pending reviews
By MATTHEW LEE
Updated 6:50 AM EST, January 21, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with his policy goals.
It was not immediately clear how much assistance would initially be affected by the Monday order as funding for many programs has already been appropriated by Congress and is obligated to be spent, if not already spent.
The order, among many Trump signed on his first day back in office, said the “foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values” and “serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries.”
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The order signed by Trump leaves it up to Rubio or his designee to make such determinations, in consultation with the Office of Management and Budget. The State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development are the main agencies that oversee foreign assistance.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-foreign-aid-9f5336e84c45a6e782fa95f60a919f47
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