People inside and outside the Trump administration scrambled on Monday to figure...
WASHINGTON - People inside and outside the Trump administration scrambled on Monday to figure out what aid it plans to cut from three Central American nations and how that is a good idea given that much of the money aims to curb migration.
Without providing evidence, Trump said on Friday the countries had “set up” caravans of migrants in order to export them to the United States. A surge of asylum seekers from the three countries, known collectively as the Northern Triangle, has sought to enter the United States in recent days. The State Department did not elaborate beyond its weekend statement that it was “carrying out the President’s direction and ending FY 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle” and would engage Congress. The U.S. fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30.
The aide and others said, however, that Congress had yet to receive any formal notices from the State Department about exactly which funds are involved, what they were originally for or where the department wants to reprogram them. The situation was reminiscent of a 2018 New Year’s Day tweet in which Trump appeared to decree an end to U.S. aid for Pakistan, sending officials scrambling to suspend security aid without even knowing how much they were freezing.
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