Trump Suspends all US Aid Programmes to Foreign Countries for 3 Months

Aid will be halted pending a review to ensure it is “consistent with the policy goals” of Trump. Newly elected President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the first day after his inauguration, suspending all US foreign aid programmes for 90 days until an analysis of their compliance with his policy goals is conducted, unian.net reports with reference to apnews.com. According to the Associated Press, it is still unclear how much aid will be initially affected by the decree, as funding for many programmes has already been appropriated by Congress and must be spent. The executive order says that “foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not consistent with American interests and in many cases are contrary to American values” and “serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly opposed to harmonious and stable relations within and between countries.”