{"id":13521,"date":"2025-02-03T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=13521"},"modified":"2025-02-02T14:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T19:44:41","slug":"united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Department of State Halts Foreign Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabeth Denton<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Staff Writer<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"ose-gettyimages ose-uid-afe90260ef0ae482acd5ad8ae01206a6 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:723px; height:623px; max-height:623px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"GettyImages\"><a id=\"Nf7nb0VnTHBH4o8vYz1QdQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2194990747\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:\"Nf7nb0VnTHBH4o8vYz1QdQ\",sig:\"pMvCeFak7-tOq3EJYagA1E_3nBhs9qEpQOWo_BLjI-o=\",w:\"594px\",h:\"396px\",items:\"2194990747\",caption: false ,tld:\"com\",is360: false })});<\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" async><\/script><\/div>\n\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\tif (typeof gie === 'function') {\n\t\t\t\t\tgie(function(){\n\t\t\t\t\t\tvar iframe = document.querySelector('.ose-embedpress-responsive iframe');\n\t\t\t\t\t\tif(iframe && !iframe.getAttribute('title')){\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tiframe.setAttribute('title', '')\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On January 20, United States President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order to put foreign aid on hold for a 90-day review. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a cable to all United States diplomatic posts outlining the hold, which threatens billions of dollars of funding from the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The cable calls for all existing foreign assistance to provide nothing more than life-saving aid and pauses any new assistance. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/24\/politics\/us-freezes-foreign-aid\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CNN<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, InterAction, an alliance of international nongovernmental organizations, has shown disproval for the freeze, believing it interrupts critical work such as clean water, basic education, ending trafficking, and providing medication. CNN also reports that the International AIDS Society warns that HIV will resurge without U.S. assistance, placing millions of lives in jeopardy. The halt is expected to end after 85 days when a full review of foreign aid spending has been completed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-foreign-assistance-pause\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. State Department<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> signed a waiver defining life-saving assistance as medicine, medical services, food, shelter, and subsistence assistance, also including the supplies and reasonable administrative costs as necessary to deliver the life-saving assistance. The waiver explicitly states that abortions, family planning, conferences, transgender surgeries, gender or Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. The waiver goes on to clarify Migration and Refugee Assistance (MRA) may only be used to support activities that qualify as life-saving assistance or for repatriation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/what-is-us-foreign-assistance\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brookings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> outlines foreign assistance in three categories: humanitarian assistance, developmental assistance, and security funding. Humanitarian assistance provides food, medical care, shelter, security, and more for life-saving relief from natural and human-caused disasters. Developmental assistance promotes economic, social, and political development, and security funding helps strengthen police, military, and security forces of a country. The relative proportions of funding for each category vary each year and little assistance is delivered as cash to governments. Foreign aid accounts for about 1 percent of the federal budget, most assistance is provided through U.S., global, or local organizations. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/what-every-american-should-know-about-u-s-foreign-aid\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brookings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reports there is evidence that developmental and humanitarian programs produce considerable results for both the U.S. and the country receiving aid. Foreign aid can advance U.S. economic interests through building economies and markets and support national security by supporting American allies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/implementing-the-presidents-executive-order-on-reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. State Department<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> released a statement saying President Trump clearly stated the United States is going to have a more rigorous procedure when it comes to choosing where to provide foreign aid. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also assured to question every American dollar spent on foreign aid with three questions: Does it make America safer? Does it make America stronger? Does it increase American prosperity?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce9nx5k7lv0o\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BBC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the United States is the world\u2019s biggest international aid donor, spending $68 billion in 2023. Dave Harden, a former USAID mission director in the Middle East has said this halt could affect a wide array of critical development projects including sanitation, shelter, and water. A notable exception in the freeze is for emergency food aid and military funding for Israel and Egypt. A wide-scale review of all foreign assistance is planned to be completed within 85 days to ensure the aid adheres to President Trump\u2019s foreign policy goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of <em>Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 20, United States President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order to put foreign aid on hold for a 90-day review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2845,382,383],"tags":[394,514,897,1587,1588],"class_list":["post-13521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2845","category-international-news","category-us","tag-economics","tag-united-states","tag-donald-trump","tag-usaid","tag-foreign-aid"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>United States Department of State Halts Foreign Aid - The Diplomatic Envoy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"United States Department of State Halts Foreign Aid - The Diplomatic Envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On January 20, United States President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order to put foreign aid on hold for a 90-day review.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Diplomatic Envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-03T13:00:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Elizabeth Denton\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Elizabeth Denton\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/03\\\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/03\\\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Elizabeth Denton\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d258a76a2b65ae9bc21ebac23eeb7906\"},\"headline\":\"United States Department of State Halts Foreign Aid\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-03T13:00:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/03\\\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":559,\"commentCount\":0,\"keywords\":[\"economics\",\"United States\",\"Donald Trump\",\"USAID\",\"Foreign Aid\"],\"articleSection\":[\"2025\",\"International News\",\"U.S.\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/03\\\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/03\\\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/03\\\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\\\/\",\"name\":\"United States Department of State Halts Foreign Aid - The Diplomatic Envoy\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-03T13:00:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d258a76a2b65ae9bc21ebac23eeb7906\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/03\\\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/03\\\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/03\\\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"United States Department of State Halts Foreign Aid\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Diplomatic Envoy\",\"description\":\"Words Beyond Borders\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d258a76a2b65ae9bc21ebac23eeb7906\",\"name\":\"Elizabeth Denton\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/e28f9c4da5fe223cceffa580fdc3c390390ff8400d3e2a908120ab2e9c6a7cb2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/e28f9c4da5fe223cceffa580fdc3c390390ff8400d3e2a908120ab2e9c6a7cb2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/e28f9c4da5fe223cceffa580fdc3c390390ff8400d3e2a908120ab2e9c6a7cb2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Elizabeth Denton\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/author\\\/dentonel\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"United States Department of State Halts Foreign Aid - The Diplomatic Envoy","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"United States Department of State Halts Foreign Aid - The Diplomatic Envoy","og_description":"On January 20, United States President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order to put foreign aid on hold for a 90-day review.","og_url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/","og_site_name":"The Diplomatic Envoy","article_published_time":"2025-02-03T13:00:07+00:00","author":"Elizabeth Denton","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Elizabeth Denton","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/"},"author":{"name":"Elizabeth Denton","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/#\/schema\/person\/d258a76a2b65ae9bc21ebac23eeb7906"},"headline":"United States Department of State Halts Foreign Aid","datePublished":"2025-02-03T13:00:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/"},"wordCount":559,"commentCount":0,"keywords":["economics","United States","Donald Trump","USAID","Foreign Aid"],"articleSection":["2025","International News","U.S."],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/","name":"United States Department of State Halts Foreign Aid - The Diplomatic Envoy","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-02-03T13:00:07+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/#\/schema\/person\/d258a76a2b65ae9bc21ebac23eeb7906"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/02\/03\/united-states-department-of-state-halts-foreign-aid\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"United States Department of State Halts Foreign Aid"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/","name":"The Diplomatic Envoy","description":"Words Beyond Borders","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/#\/schema\/person\/d258a76a2b65ae9bc21ebac23eeb7906","name":"Elizabeth Denton","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e28f9c4da5fe223cceffa580fdc3c390390ff8400d3e2a908120ab2e9c6a7cb2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e28f9c4da5fe223cceffa580fdc3c390390ff8400d3e2a908120ab2e9c6a7cb2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e28f9c4da5fe223cceffa580fdc3c390390ff8400d3e2a908120ab2e9c6a7cb2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Elizabeth Denton"},"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/author\/dentonel\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13525,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13521\/revisions\/13525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}