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The US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio has instructed an immediate support to work on practically all existing foreign assistance programs until a review of whether they match the guidelines of President Donald Trump, according to an internal cable that was observed by the Financial Times stands.
The step will affect the international aid contracts managed by Washington, including the US Agency for International Development, worth billions of dollars and tension countries around the world.
Rubio said in the cable, which was sent to the Foreign Ministry and the USA on Friday Foreign help Payments should be suspended and contract officials and Grant Officers who “had to issue stop work immediately”. . . Until at the time like the secretary after a review ”.
The review period takes precedence $ 70 billion in 2022 Fiscal year, possibly for three months in the suspension.
Rubio also ordered that all foreign ministers paid by an agency or department are approved by the Foreign Minister, which centralized the review of all international aid programs in his office.
Rubios Kabel implements an Executive order signed by Trump on his first day of office. In it, the President beat the “foreign auxiliary industry and bureaucracy” as “non -American interests and in many cases opposite American values”, and asked for help to suspend.
In the first days of his second term in the White House, Trump took aggressive steps to form and redirect all agencies of the US government to implement his politics.
Scientific authorities such as the National Institutes of Health also have a review of the new administration in the approval of the grants, the alarming researchers.
There are some exceptions from Rubios Aid Freeze Order, including “approved exception” for military financing for Israel and Egypt as well as foreign emergency food aid. However, the cable said that the US government authorities, including the USA, have to pose new and existing contracts in addition to the break that the publication of proposals for foreign aid projects must hire.
At the beginning of this week, Rubio said in a statement that Trump asked him to “put our national core interest as the leading mission of American foreign policy”, and said that he was mass migration and scraping of climate policy among his top priorities, “weakness” America .
“Every dollar we spend, every program we finance, and every guideline we pursue must be justified with the answer to three simple questions: makes America safer? Does it make America stronger? Does America make it more successful? “
The Foreign Ministry was addressed for a comment.