US EditionTrump Moves to Cut More Foreign Aid, Risking Shutdown
President Trump plans to use a rare pocket rescission tactic to unilaterally withhold $4.9 billion in foreign aid, impacting global humanitarian projects amid warnings of severe funding cuts.
- But in a letter posted online late Thursday, United States President Donald Trump notified House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson he planned to withhold the $4.9b in approved foreign spending using pocket rescission for 45 days, aiming to cut another $5bn in foreign aid before funds expire next month.
- The administration's long campaign to downsize government has meant Trump largely dismantled the United States Agency for International Development and previously canceled $9bn in foreign aid and public media funding in July.
- Humanitarian organisations report concrete impacts, noting Save the Children warned that Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan could run out of ready-to-use therapeutic food over the next three months.
- Democrats warned that reversing approved funding would doom negotiations and risk a shutdown after September 30, potentially furloughing up to 900,000 federal employees, while Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and at least one Republican lawmaker called the tactic illegal or an overreach.
- The White House defended the rare tactic, citing the 1977 precedent last used more than 50 years ago, and Senator Marco Rubio praised it for rooting out 'fraud, waste, and abuse' while saving billions.
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