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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump medication has notified the World Food Program and different partners that it has terminated immoderate of the past remaining lifesaving humanitarian programs crossed the Middle East, a U.S. authoritative and a U.N. authoritative told The Associated Press connected Monday.
The projects were being canceled “for the convenience of the U.S. Government” astatine the absorption of Jeremy Lewin, a apical lieutenant astatine Trump advisor Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whom the Trump medication appointed to oversee and decorativeness dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to a missive sent to USAID partners and viewed by the AP.
About 60 letters canceling contracts were sent implicit the past week, including for large projects with the World Food Program, the world’s largest supplier of nutrient aid, a USAID authoritative said. An authoritative with the United Nations successful the Middle East said WFP received termination letters for Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
Some of the past remaining U.S. backing for cardinal programs successful Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and the confederate African federation of Zimbabwe besides were affected, including those providing food, water, aesculapian attraction and structure for radical displaced by war, the USAID authoritative said.
The Trump medication had pledged to spare those astir urgent, lifesaving programs successful its cutting of assistance and improvement programs done the State Department and USAID.
The Trump medication already has canceled thousands of USAID contracts arsenic it dismantles USAID, which it accuses of wastefulness and of advancing wide causes.
The recently terminated contracts were among astir 900 surviving programs that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had notified Congress helium intended to preserve, the USAID authoritative said.
There was nary contiguous remark from the State Department.
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Magdy reported from Cairo.
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