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President Trump has moved to cancel approximately $5 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid with a rarely used maneuver called a “pocket rescission,” the New York Post reports.
The outlet said Trump notified Congress Thursday night of his request to cancel the funds.
A pocket rescission hasn’t been done in nearly 50 years.
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The New York Post shared additional details:
A pocket rescission is a request that’s presented to Congress so late in the fiscal year — which ends Sept. 30 — that it’s made regardless of whether Congress acts.
The clawback includes $3.2 billion in United States Agency for International Development (USAID) development assistance, $322 million from the USAID-State Department Democracy Fund, $521 million in State Department contributions to international organizations, $393 million in State Department contributions to peacekeeping activities and $445 million in separately budgeted peacekeeping aid.
The spending had been destined for a wide variety of nonprofits and foreign governments and was paused earlier this year by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and then stuck in legal limbo due to an ensuing lawsuit filed by the Global Health Council.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday lifted an injunction in the case, opening the door for Trump to proceed with the first attempted pocket rescission since 1977.
The Trump administration has highlighted spending items that are allegedly wasteful, such as $24.6 million for “climate resilience” in Honduras, $2.7 million for the South African Democracy Works Foundation, which published inflammatory racial articles including “The Problem with White People,” and $3.9 million to promote democracy among LGBT people in the Western Balkans.
Other highlighted allocations include $1.5 million to market the paintings of Ukrainian women.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought previously said the Trump administration was strongly considering using a pocket rescission later in the year.
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