Trump uses sneaky manoeuvre to block foreign aid budget
US President Donald Trump uses a special maneuver that has not been seen in about 50 years to prevent a congress -approved foreign aid budget.
Trump said that the Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson would not spend $ 4.9 billion ($ 7.5 billion) in convenient foreign assistance and would not effectively cut the budget without passing through the legislature.
Trump, who sent a letter to Johnson on Thursday, uses what is known as a mobile cancellation.
This is the time when a President made a request for the Congress not to spend an approved funds for the end of the year, so that the Congress cannot act on demand on a 45 -day time period and consequently the money is not announced.
For the first time in about 50 years, a president used one.
The financial year ends at the end of September.
The letter was published on Friday morning on the X account of the White House Management and Budget Office.
He said that financing will be cut from the Foreign Ministry and the US International Development Agency or Trump’s efforts to reduce external aid from an early target, USAID.
The last mobile cancellation was held in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter, and the Trump administration argues that it was legally permitted.
However, if it is standardized by the White House, such a movement can effectively jump the congress effectively about important expenditure options and potentially create some control over the expenditure from the Assembly and the Senate.
The 1974 Eclipse Control Act gives the President the authority to cancel the funds approved by the congress.
The Congress may vote for withdrawing or maintaining funds, but the White House proposes a very close cancellation to September 30 and ensures that the money is not spent and financing.
Trump had previously tried to receive congress support for reflections, and in July, when the Assembly and the Senate approved a deduction of $ 9 billion (A14 billion).
These rescues withdrew the financing for public broadcasts and foreign aid.
As the Trump administration loses access to the food materials and development programs of the foreign population, it made deep discounts on foreign aid despite its relatively insufficient savings compared to the possible damage to the US and its reputation abroad.
In February, the management said that the USAID would eliminate almost all foreign aid contracts and US $ 60 billion ($ 92 billion) in general assistance abroad.
The USAID has been dismantled since then and a few remaining programs have been under the control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration resorted to the Supreme Court to stop the sub -court decisions that maintained the foreign aid that Trump is trying to freeze, including Global Health and HIV and AIDS programs.
The New York Post first reported the cancellation of mobile.
