NEW YORK - August 29. The administration of US President Donald Trump intends to cut foreign aid by another $5 billion, which includes $1.5 million "to sell paintings of Ukrainian women," the New York Post (NYP) reported. According to the report, of the $5 billion that was to be returned to the US budget, $3.2 billion was allocated to the Agency for International Development (USAID), while the rest was earmarked for other State Department funds.
The report says the aid package included $24.6 million for climate change programmes in Honduras, $3.9 million to promote LGBT ideology (a movement labelled extremist and banned in Russia) in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, and $2.7 million for the work of the South African Democracy Fund, whose platforms have published articles inciting racial hatred.
In addition, the White House will return $838 million to the US budget that was intended to support UN peacekeeping missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. Among the cuts to the peacekeeping budget were $11 million to purchase armored personnel carriers for Uruguayan peacekeepers, $4 million to establish a training center in Zambia, and $3 million for barracks to house peacekeepers from Kazakhstan.
On February 3, the Trump administration effectively suspended USAID, which had long served as a tool of U.S. foreign policy and influence abroad. On March 10, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, appointed interim head of USAID, announced that the administration had terminated 83 of the agency's % programs after a review.
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