>>8515321Foreign Aid Frozen Until Trump Finds Out Exactly Where The Money Is Going
AZ Megamark August 7, 2019
https://archive.fo/rDORzThe Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget wrote a letter on Saturday, addressed to Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan. In it, they notified the State Department that they are freezing most of the foreign aid money congress already approved.
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The government’s fiscal year ends on September 30. Various foreign aid accounts have “extra” money still sitting in them. OMB put a temporary hold on these “unobligated funds” until they can determine how much is on hand now, and what it was intended to be used for.
Depending on the information they get back, the OMB may suggest that Congress “cancel” the appropriated funds, called “rescission,” or “reprogramming” the funds to other uses.