Trump demands a reduction in abroad by Congress by almost $ five billion

US President Donald Trump has asked the Congress dominated by his Republicans to shorten foreign aid by almost $ five billion. A corresponding letter from the President to the House of Representatives was published by the White House on Friday. Both programs by the US State Department as well as other organizations and authorities should be affected by the required cuts of $ 4.9 billion (4.2 billion euros).

In addition to the concrete effects for the people all over the world dependent on international aid, Trump’s step is also likely to begin the budget dispute between Republicans and Democrats – there is a so -called “shutdown” after September 30th. The Democrats had recently warned that every attempt to undo the financing already approved by the congress would burst the current budget negotiations.

Trump has ordered massive deletions in development aid since taking office. Immediately after his return to the White House in January, he frozen from the U.S. Aid aids and then stroked more than 80 percent of the programs of the development agency USAID. The massive cuts caused horror in aid organizations worldwide, making millions of people lost vital aids. The US cuts are particularly drastic because Washington International has so far been one of the largest donors.