Budget director of the White House Russell Vought speaks on July 15, 2025 to reporters in the US Capitol (photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
Washington – The White House budget office moved to foreign aid of almost 5 billion US dollars on Friday, which was already approved by Congress in a controversial maneuver in order to be able to handle the legislators.
The so-called pocket recording, which a top wax dog of the congress and the Republican Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Senate appointed as illegally, would achieve the financing that the congress has already approved for the Foreign Ministry in order to fulfill obligations in overseas.
The impartial government responsibility office for accountability Did it consider it Such measures to illegally avoid the congress. Susan Collins, chairman of the Senate Center, said on Friday that “any efforts to abolish the acquisition of acquired funds without the approval of the congress are a clear violation of the law”.
“In view of the fact that this package was sent very close to the congress at the end of the financial year, in which the funds are supposed to run, this is an obvious attempt to remove acquired means without the consent of the congress,” said Maine’s Republican in a statement.
According to a summary, which was given by the areas of the Senate that evaluate the Democrat Patty Murray, the step would withdraw 3.2 billion US dollars from the development aid house of the Foreign Ministry, finance nutritional safety programs, restrict irregular migration to the United States and strengthen the market for US companies to expand through overseas.
It would also remove 913 million US dollars in the US contract contributions to the United Nations to support peace security missions. Safety support of 445 million US dollars from the Foreign Ministry of Peace Security Operations, especially in Africa; And according to Murray’s office, 322 million US dollars from the Democracy Fund.
The White House office for Management and Budget did not respond to a message that requested the request.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said in a statement that President Donald Trump “sets up his authority in the context of the pre -building control law to use a pocket recording and to cancel 5 billion US dollars of foreign help and international organizational financing that violate the first priorities of the president”.
“None of these programs are in the interests of America, which is why the President took decisive measures to put America and Americans in the first place,” said Rubio.
Frustration from the Congress
If the White House submits an application to the congress to regain the already approved funds, payments will be held back for 45 days to make a decision during the legislator or not. Since there is less than 45 days before the end of the current financial year, the financing is essentially indefinite, regardless of whether the congress approves the move.
Since the legislator is exposed to a deadline on October 1 to avoid closing the government, resignation has already frustrated on the Capitol Hill.
Murray from Washington State has blown up the application for withdrawal.
“Donald Trump wants to exercise more non -partisan investments in our national security and our global leadership,” said Murray in an explanation. “This time, however, he tries to make an end through the congress. No legislator should accept this absurd, illegal trick in order to steal their constitutional authority to determine how taxpayers are spent.”
Chuck Schumer, chairman of the Senate Minister, has beaten up the Trump administration for the fact that they had withdrawn non -partisan funds.
“Since the country is pushing the financing period on September 30 on September 30, it is clear that neither President Trump nor Congress Republican have a plan to avoid painful and completely unnecessary closure,” said the New York Democrat in an explanation.
The Pennsylvania democrat Brendan Boyle, who is the supreme Democrat in the US Haushaus Committee, said in a explanation that the resignation is not “worth the paper on which it was printed”, and criticized Trump and the budget director of the White House, Russell Russell, who was the name.
“It is deeply alarming, significantly illegal and an obvious abuse of power,” said Boyle. (*5*)
This is the second drum application of the Trump government to the congress. The first to which the congress approved, 9 billion dollars thrown Funding approved in the congress. This included two financial years around 1.1 billion US dollars for the public broadcasting company such as National Public Radio and the public broadcasting service. It was also scratched back 8 billion US dollars.
