“The Donald Trump Administration has announced the abolition of more than 90% of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for external assistance. Source: “European Truth” with reference to CNN material literally Trump: “In total, almost 5800 USAID grants were canceled and more than 500 USAID grants were saved.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: “European Truth” with reference to CNN material
Trump’s administration literally: “In total, nearly 5,800 USAID grants have been canceled and more than 500 USAID grants have been saved. The total marginal value of the stored contracts is approximately $ 57 billion.”
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Details: In addition to the cancellation of USAID grants, “approximately 4 100 state grants were canceled, and about 2 700 state grants were saved,” the statement said.
Later, the administration said that “there are still 297 contracts that need to be revised.”
CNN notes that a sharp decrease in external assistance has become a serious blow to non -profit organizations and contractors. Assistance programs in different countries have stopped because of a large freezing of funding and watching billions of assistance.
Updated information from the Trump administration was filed in response to a lawsuit, which appeals a complete suspension of foreign aid.
According to the statement, State Secretary Marco Rubio on Wednesday “made a final decision on each grant on an individual basis, deciding either to retain a grant, or to terminate it in accordance with the conditions of the instrument or an independent legal authority as such that does not meet the national interests and foreign policy of the United States.”
However, on Wednesday, the plaintiffs in this lawsuit refused to state that Rubio personally viewed all decisions to terminate the contracts, claiming that “one person or even a group of people would not be possible to review all these contracts and award in such a short period.”
Recall:
- Grant cuts occurred before the federal judge obliged the Trump administration to execute a temporary ban on suspension of foreign aid financing and gave the state department the time until the evening of Wednesday to pay all the work for work performed by February 13.