State Department Pauses Foreign Aid

“The newly installed director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance sent a global cable Friday that orders an immediate pause on new foreign aid spending, as well as a stop-work order for existing grants and contracts,” Devex reports.

“United States aid officials and experts who reviewed the document told Devex that the new guidance intensifies U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent executive order, which placed a 90-day pause on aid spending and could sow ‘chaos’ throughout U.S. aid programs.”

Said one State Department official to the Washington Post: “It’s not hyperbole to say that people will die.”