According to AP and another media, Rubio sent a memorandum to the staff of the U.S. Department of State and U.S. aid agency, in which he ordered that almost all abroad aid programmes be stopped for 90 days, while drawing up a study on the compliance of these programmes with US abroad policy objectives.
The order issued by Rubio extends beyond the first day of Trump's presidency a regulation to suspend US improvement aid and is intended to cover all programs of the State Department and USAID. As PAP says the origin in legislature related to Democrats, it besides means stopping all aid to Ukraine, both military and humanitarian, or training programs of Ukrainian soldiers.
– Almost all of this is under the supervision of the State Department, but for the financial assistance that goes through the planet Bank. But if, let's assume, the Ukrainian energy infrastructure would be damaged in a Russian shelling tomorrow, the U.S. would not be able to aid the Ukrainians not frost to death," said the researcher.
This information was besides confirmed by another origin of PAP related to the State Department. The same is reported by PBS tv and Politico portal, according to which Taiwan will besides be affected.
America "lost the trust of partners"
According to the memorandum published by writer Ken Klippenstein, except for the freezing of programmes, food programmes responding to urgent needs and military support programmes for abroad Military Financing (FMF) for Israel and Egypt.
The decision was expressed by the leading Democrats in the abroad Affairs and Budget Committee of the home of Representatives, Gregory Meeks and Lois Frankel.
"Over the years Republicans in legislature have criticised what they consider to be a deficiency of credibility of the United States towards countries specified as China, Russia and Iran. Now our credibility is at stake, and it looks like we will retreat from American commitments to our partners around the world," the congressmen wrote. "Arbitrically blocking our abroad aid, we lose confidence: from people who are relying on this aid to survive, whether in the Gaza Strip, Sudan, Haiti, Ukraine or those who are in danger, providing this aid," they added.
