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“No new funds are obliged for new awards or extensions of existing awards, until any new prize or extension offered is reviewed and approved … as a corresponding to President Trump’s agenda,” the note said.
It seems that the vast order affects everything from the aid to the development to military assistance – including potentially to Ukraine, which received billions of dollars weapons under Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden as he tries to repel a Russian invasion.
But the note explicitly made exceptions to military aid for Israel – whose long -standing large weapons of weapons from the United States have expanded further after the war in Gaza – and Egypt, which received generous funding for US defense after signing a peace treaty with Israel in 1979.
Just hours after he took office on Monday, Trump ordered a 90-day pause in foreign help for development in anticipation of a review of efficiency and consistency with his foreign policy.
But the scope of the order was not known immediately and it was not clear what funding could be shortened, given that the US Congress defines the budget of the federal government. Trump’s order is illegal, a source of known discussions in the congress are argued.
“The freezing of these international investments will make our international partners look for other funding partners – probably competitors and opponents of the United States – to fill this hole and to shift the influence of the United States, the longer, this illegal detention continues,” the source said at Condition for anonymity.
The Memorandum of the State Department stated that the senior officials “guarantee that to the maximum extent permitted by law, no new obligations for foreign care were made” until Rubio decides after a review.
It says that existing foreign awards are issued immediately until they are reviewed by Rubio.
“Chaos is being produced,” said a former senior official of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), talking on an anonymous condition.
“Organizations will have to stop all activities, so all rescue health services, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, maternal health and child health, all agricultural work, all support of civil society organizations, education,” the employee said.
A USAID employee who demanded anonymity said that the employees responsible for the projects in Ukraine were told to stop all the work. Among the projects that are frozen are support for schools and health care as an emergency care for the mother and children’s vaccinations, the employee said.
Throughout the advice, “decisions will be made whether to continue, change or terminate the programs” from Rubio after review over the next 85 days. Until then, Rubio may approve of the refusals. Rubio has issued an emergency for food assistance, according to the note.
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This comes against the background of Humanitarian aid tide in Gaza Strip Following the cessation of fire between Israel and Palestinian fighters, Hamas began on Sunday several other hungry crises around the world, including Sudan.
The State Department’s memorandum also said Egypt and administrative costs, including salaries needed to administer foreign military funding. “
Israel receives about $ 3.3 billion for foreign military funding annually, while Egypt receives about $ 1.3 billion.
Other countries identified for such funding in 2025 include Ukraine, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Djibouti, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Egypt and Jordan of Biden Administration S
This request also stated that foreign military funding “will also seek to strengthen the ability of Lebanese Armed Forces to mitigate instability and to counteract the abuse of Iranian influence.”
Currently, the Lebanese military is trying to unfold in the southern part of the country as the Israeli troops withdraw in a transaction to end the fire, which requires Iran -backed Iran -backed by Iran to be removed from the area.
