The White house confirmed the US intention to reduce financial assistance to other countries
The Director of the office of management and budget the White house said that the budget cuts are intended to increase military spending by $54 billion.
NEW YORK, March 5. /Offset. TASS Kirill Volkov/. The administration of the President of the United States Donald trump is going to seriously reduce volume of economic assistance to other countries. This was confirmed on Saturday, the Director of the office of management and budget (OMB) the White house Mick Malvani.
“We are going to offer to cut aid to foreign countries, and we are going to offer to spend the money here (in the USA approx. TASS),” he told TV channel Fox News.
He said that the budget cuts are intended to increase U.S. military spending by $54 billion.
“The overall message is pretty straightforward: less money to spend abroad, the more money we spend here,” said Melwani, who previously held the position of member of the house of representatives.
Previously, a number of us media including the Associated Press (AP) reported that US Secretary of state Rex Tillerson agreed to proposed major budget cuts his Department worked out by the White house. ABU proposed to cut the budget of the state Department by 37%.
As noted by the AP, Tillerson agreed that “aggressive cleaning budget,” the foreign Ministry and included in the structure of the Agency for international development (USAID), engaged in the provision of economic assistance to other countries, but offered to stretch out the process for three years.
Meanwhile, lawmakers from both the Senate and house of representatives have signaled that in bayonets perceive the initiative of the White house, designed by more than a third to cut costs of the state Department and USAID. Many members of Congress of both Democrats and Republicans have considered such proposals threaten to undermine the foreign policy of Washington.
This year the work of the state Department and USAID allocated $50.1 billion of This amount is slightly more than 1% of the expenditure part of the Federal budget of the United States.