Washington – The Trump administration said it is eliminating more than 90% of the United States Agency for International Development Foreign aid contracts and $ 60 billion in the general assistance of the United States worldwide, putting numbers in their plans to eliminate most of the United States and humanitarian aid abroad.
The cuts detailed by the Administration would leave few survivors USAID projects so that the defenders try to save on what is ongoing. Judicial battles with the administration.
The Trump administration described its plans both in an internal memorandum obtained by Associated Press and by presentations in one of those federal demands on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court intervened in that case on Wednesday night and temporarily blocked a court order that required the administration to release billions of dollars in foreign aid at midnight.
Wednesday’s revelations also give an idea of the Retirement Scale of the administration of the aid and development assistance of the United States. Abroad, and from decades of American policy that foreign aid helps interest to the stabilization of other countries and economies and the construction of alliances.
The memorandum said the officials were “clearing significant waste from decades of institutional drift.” More changes are planned in how the USAID and the State Department provide foreign assistance, said: “Use dollars of taxpayers wisely to advance American interests.”
President Donald Trump and ally ELON ALMIZCLE They have hit the stronger and faster foreign aid than almost any other objective in their impulse to reduce the size of the federal government. Both men say that USAID projects advance on a liberal agenda and are a loss of money.
Trump on January 20 ordered what he said would be a review of the 90 -day program program of which foreign assistance programs deserved to continue, and cut all foreign assistance funds almost during the night.
The freezing of funds has arrested thousands of programs financed by the United States abroad, and administration and government efficiency equipment of the administration and Musk have taken the majority of the USAID work personnel through forced license and shots.
The widely successful USAID programs accredited by containing ebola sprouts and other threats and saving more than 20 million lives in Africa through HIV and AIDS treatment are among those that are still separated from the agency’s funds, they say USAID officials and officials with associated organizations. Meanwhile, formal notifications of program cancellations are being implemented.
In the presentations of the Federal Court on Wednesday, non -profit organizations must money in contracts with USAID describe both Trump’s appointed politicians and Musk team members who finish USAID contracts worldwide at dizzying speed, without time for any significant review, they say.
“” There are many more endings, so believe a skewer! “”, Wrote a USAID official on Monday in an email cited by lawyers for non -profit organizations in the presentations.
Non -profit organizations, among thousands of contractors, owe billions of dollars in the payment since the freezing began, described the mass terminations as a maneuver to comply with the order to raise freezing of financing temporarily.
So did a Democratic legislator.
The Administration tried to “go through Congress and courts announcing the completion of its simulated” review “of foreign aid and the immediate termination of thousands of help programs worldwide,” said Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
A coalition that represents the main US and global companies and non -governmental organizations and former officials expressed their shock for movement. “The American people deserve a transparent accounting of what will be lost: about the counterter, global health, food security and competition,” said the United States global leadership coalition.
The State Department said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had reviewed the endings.
In total, the Trump administration said it will eliminate 5,800 of 6,200 USAID contract awards for several years, for a cut of $ 54 billion. Other 4,100 of 9,100 subsidies from the State Department were being eliminated, for a cut of $ 4.4 billion.
The State Department memorandum, which was first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, described the administration stimulated by an order of the Federal Court that gave officials until the end of Wednesday to lift the Trump administration messages in Foreign Aid funds.
“In response, the State and the USAID moved quickly,” pointing to the foreign aid programs of the State Department and the State Department in large numbers for contractual terminations, the memorandum said.
Trump administration officials, after repeated warnings of the federal judge in the case, also said Wednesday that they finally began to send their first or any payment after more than a month without known expenses. The officials were processing a few million dollars in subsequent payments, authorities said, due to US and international organizations and companies.
But the order of the American district judge Amir H. Ali of defrosting billions of dollars for midnight on Wednesday will remain waiting until the Supreme Court has the opportunity to intervene more fully, according to the brief order signed by the President of the Court John Roberts.
Ali had ordered the Federal Government to fulfill its decision to temporarily blocking a freezing in foreign aid, ruling a lawsuit filed by non -profit groups and companies. An appeal panel rejected the administration application to intervene before the Superior Court intervened.
The plaintiffs have until noon on Friday to answer, Roberts said.
The Administration has presented an emergency appeal before the Supreme Court in another case so far, arguing that a lower court was wrong to restore the head of a federal surveillance agency after Trump dismissed him.
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Associated Press Gary Fields writers in Washington and Rebecca Boone in Boise, Idaho, contributed to this report.
