Posted on 01/27/2025 2:57:30 PM PST by bimboeruption
The Trump administration’s sudden halt on U.S. foreign aid is causing chaos inside groups ranging from health providers to landmine removers — interrupting lifesaving programs as officials struggle to understand the scope of the directive.
Following the Friday order from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, leaders of aid organizations are looking at which programs to stop, and whether to immediately cut staff or even shut down. As they seek waivers, aid groups are scrambling to adjust — from seeking non-federal funds to help refugees arriving in the U.S. to halting efforts at HIV clinics in Africa.
“This ‘stop work’ order is cruel and deadly,” said Asia Russell, the executive director of Health GAP, a nonprofit working on access to HIV treatment in developing countries. “It will kill people.”
Many federal workers, from the Pentagon to the U.S. Agency for International Development, are confused by the wording of the order, such as what exactly could qualify for an exemption. In some cases, their ability to get information is being stymied: In a note to staff obtained by POLITICO, a top USAID official told employees they needed prior top-level approval to even talk to institutions outside of the agency.
“The pause on all foreign assistance means a complete halt,” Ken Jackson, USAID’s assistant to the administrator for management and resources wrote in an agency-wide email to some 10,000 employees. Jackson said “all communications outside the agency, including to the State Department, must be approved by the Agency Front Office.” Failure to do so, he wrote, would result in unspecified disciplinary action.
Some USAID officials said that prompted them to reconsider requesting waivers. One said that “anyone that contradicts [the stop-work order] is seen as obstructionist, so putting something forward for a waiver can be risky.” The person, like others in this story...
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From the article:
The order also affects foreign military financing programs to places such as Ukraine, Jordan and Taiwan. The extent of that impact is still uncertain. “I’m not sure anyone knows all the details right now and key folks are almost certainly trying to unpack the actions and implications,” a former senior Pentagon official said.
Although the new order excludes Israel’s $3.3 billion share and Egypt’s $1.3 billion share of the budget, the remaining $1.5 billion designated for other governments, such as Ukraine, Jordan and Taiwan, is in limbo.
Advocates for Ukraine in particular were trying to understand the impact. While most military aid to Ukraine goes through programs other than State’s foreign military financing, the billions that have been doled out through that program, could, in theory, be halted, two former Biden administration officials familiar with the issue said.
A good deal could come down to the details of individual contracts, but some of the impact might not be felt for months, one former official said. Ukraine also receives significant humanitarian and economic aid that is likely to be cut.
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Zelensky's party at the expense of the American Taxpayer is over. Thank you, President Trump!
Politico must have been getting part of the kickbacks.
We need those funds HERE.
We got a border war to contend with and its gonna go on for a very long time.
Audit the books of the NGOs. I suspect 99% of the money they are getting is paid out to staff and about 1% actually gets spent in Ukraine
Here is how this worked.
About 50% is spent by the Fed bureaucracy on keeping themselves employed. 50% is sent out on sole source contracts to politically contacted contractors and NGOS. 9% is fraud/waste/abuse and 1% actually gets spent in the country it is suppose to be “helping”.
Spend it on getting rid of illegal aliens.
Correction
Here is how this worked.
About 50% is spent by the Fed bureaucracy on keeping themselves employed. 40% is sent out on sole source contracts to politically contacted contractors and NGOS. 9% is fraud/waste/abuse and 1% actually gets spent in the country it is suppose to be “helping”.
Our national debt is now much bigger than our GDP. That means it is extremely difficult we can pay off any of the principle.
Why are we responsible to carry problems of the entire world while we ourselves are drowning in debt to our eyeballs? Why should we harm lives of our own children and grandchildren by burdening them with debt we created?
Which country has given us foreign aid when we shed blood and treasure during foreign wars?
“… Many federal workers, from the Pentagon to the U.S. Agency for International Development, are confused by the wording of the order, such as what exactly could qualify for an exemption. In some cases, their ability to get information is being stymied: In a note to staff obtained by POLITICO, a top USAID official told employees they needed prior top-level approval to even talk to institutions outside of the agency.…”
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Gee, if we resolved the USAID bureaucrats’ problems by simply ABOLISHING the Agency they wouldn’t have problems understanding instructions. LET’S DO IT.
What would you think of someone that took cash advances on their credit card to give money to charities?
That money will have to be paid back at some point are the person will go bankrupt.
That is what our government is doing it is borrowing money at high interest rate to give to other nations. It is not sustainable (using the left’s favorite word). It has to stop.
Open borders, DEI, funding Planned Parenthood....if “it will kill people” is the standard, where was Asia Russell, then?
No, the HIV, hunger, war and other maladies will kill people, not the lack of our money.
Not our responsibility to provide health care in another country - and we did not plant the mines.
It will stop when we and Europe defund it. As long as Zelenskyy smells money he’ll keep fighting.
I’m sure the Ukraine leadership, and many of its citizens
don’t like the idea of Russia taking land, and it being
recognized by the global community.
The dying needs to stop. The billions of dollars trail going
into the Ukraine needs to stop. We need to dry a line on
the global scorecard and seek to develop better relations
with Russia.
Russia isn’t safe relying China’s good graces for it’s
sovereignty.
Russia selling oil on the open market using US Dollars, is
a step in the right direction.
I think we should try to negotiate the best deal we can on
behalf of the Ukraine.
Then we can be done with it.
“He’s Hitler” is Trump’s second term “Russia Collusion!!!”
Since when is it our obligation to feed the world? For too long our money and resources were sent overseas to other countries ignoring the American people. Trump is fixing that.
Ukraine can end the war via treaty at any time. Money to rebuild will make its way to their country. Problem solved.
The fricking Soros- and Gates-funded NGOs have plenty of $$$.
They just need to divert them from transporting illegals to where they’re actually needed (medical and other assistance in their countries of origin).
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