US ends all military, humanitarian, and global health aid - except to Israel

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The US State Department has frozen nearly all foreign assistance worldwide effective immediately days after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order Monday to put a hold on such assistance for 90 days.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a cable, seen by CNN, to all US diplomatic posts on Friday outlining the move, which threatens billions of dollars of funding from the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for programs worldwide.

Foreign assistance has been the target of ire from Republicans in Congress and Trump administration officials, but the funding accounts for very little of the overall US budget. The scope of the executive order and subsequent cable has left humanitarian officials reeling.

The cable calls for immediate “stop work” orders on existing foreign assistance and pauses new aid. In the coming month, the cable said, the administration will develop standards for a review of whether the assistance is “aligned with President Trump’s foreign policy agenda.”

“Decisions whether to continue, modify, or terminate programs will be made following this review,” the cable states, noting that such a review should be completed within 85 days.

The order from the State Department provides a waiver for emergency food assistance as well as for foreign military financing for Israel and Egypt. The cable does not specifically mention any other countries that receive foreign military financing like Ukraine or Taiwan.

One humanitarian official said the pause is incredibly disruptive and said the specifics of the cable are “as bad as can be.”

Another official told CNN that while they expected there to be cuts or changes to assistance to specific areas, they were not expecting such a sweeping and immediate pause. They said that the humanitarian needs worldwide are acute and a freeze in assistance from the US – the biggest humanitarian donor in the world – could be detrimental.

In his executive order, Trump claimed that the US “foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values.”

However, one of the officials noted that assistance programs, such as those related to global health, which are targeted by the freeze, are in the US’ interest and had enjoyed bipartisan support.

“Making sure there are not pandemics is in our interest. Global stability is in our interest,” they said.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/politics/us-freezes-foreign-aid/index.html

 

[acri1]

Nice to see Muslims for Trump also getting their tangibles

 

[At30wecashout]

So while people want to "enjoy the fukkery" there are deals we have in place and allies who will flat out stop fukking with us. Foreign aid is a tiny part of the budget. This is what this rotten ass country voted for. They might start attaching wild conditions to the aid whenever they are restored.

 

[-DMP-]

But Israel in a cease fire why would they need aid

 

[King Static X]

77 million idiots in this country have pretty much irreparably damaged the US's standing in the world. Crazy.

 

[Elim Garak]

 

[Gritsngravy]

So while people want to "enjoy the fukkery" there are deals we have in place and allies who will flat out stop fukking us. Foreign aid is a tiny part of the budget. This is what this rotten ass country voted for. They might start attaching wild conditions to the aid whenever they are restored.

Not disagreeing with your point

But I think the country really is broke and we can’t keep kicking the can down the road

They might fukk around and make cuts into the military and if the military getting cuts that means they about to cut everything, that’s why they been putting an emphasis cutting gov jobs, and all the rhetoric about Canadian and Mexico and tariffs America getting better deals

 

[Belize King]

Our budget is 4.something TRILLION dollars. 100 billion in foreign aid is a drop in the bucket.

The three largest item are Social security, Medicare and defense. When will the politicians attack those monies

How military spending went up every year after shutting down Afghanistan which had 20K soldiers and 50k+ contractors?

Cut off pennies of spending and piss off you allies Trumpbrehs.

 

[CrushedGroove]

Feel sorry for all those ambassadors that just became cannon fodder

 

[UnQuantized]

So foreign aid is antithetical to American Values

 

[FaTaL]

Yuck

 

[At30wecashout]

Not disagreeing with your point

But I think the country really is broke and we can’t keep kicking the can down the road

They might fukk around and make cuts into the military and if the military getting cuts that means they about to cut everything, that’s why they been putting an emphasis cutting gov jobs, and all the rhetoric about Canadian and Mexico and tariffs America getting better deals

The country is not broke. It is however having a revenue problem, but I can tell you why:

Income inequality in the U.S has increased since 1980 and is greater than in peer countries​

Income inequality may be measured in a number of ways, but no matter the measure, economic inequality in the U.S. is seen to be on the rise.

One widely used measure – the 90/10 ratio – takes the ratio of the income needed to rank among the top 10% of earners in the U.S. (the 90th percentile) to the income at the threshold of the bottom 10% of earners (the 10th percentile). In 1980, the 90/10 ratio in the U.S. stood at 9.1, meaning that households at the top had incomes about nine times the incomes of households at the bottom. The ratio increased in every decade since 1980, reaching 12.6 in 2018, an increase of 39%.

How four decades of tax cuts fueled inequality

This story is a partnership between the Center for Public Integrity, a newsroom that investigates inequality, and Bloomberg Tax, a news organization that provides legal and regulatory information for tax professionals and their advisers. A dense fog rolling in off the Pacific enveloped President...

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The President now runs the country with the help of multiple billionaires AND has the social media ecosphere catering to him. They need to be taxed. Aid to other countries, infrastructure in the US, healthcare, etc are NOT what is putting us in a societal bind, it is billionaires and multinationals getting to scoot without paying their fair share. In the wake of the Great Recession, Obama had the largest increase of national debt by 8.34 trillion. 8 years and the greatest crash in damn near 100 years.

Trump in 4 years ran it up 8.18 trillion. Big ass 2017 tax cuts, and fukked up a pandemic to the point we are still recovering from it. Do not cut any slack to these rich shytheads. The country would be just fine if they paid up, but they are working on their next hustle as we speak.

Edit: they are not cutting the military. We could have unbelievable prosperity if just a percentage of the military budget was moved to improve the country, especially with climate change coming off the top rope on us.

 

[Amo Husserl]

Build yourself up while making enemies...

 

[In The Zone '98]

Let's see how it shakes out in 90 days

Isreal good tho. That's most important

 

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