The United States takes a break in its foreign aid, according to a disclosed note

The US State Department has suspended any existing and suspended foreign aid, according to an internal note sent to US officials and embassies abroad.

The disclosed advice follows the decree of President Trump published Monday providing for a 90 -day break in aid to foreign development while waiting for an examination of efficiency and consistency with his foreign policy.

The United States is the largest international aid donor in the world, spending $ 68 billion in 2023 According to government figures. The opinion of the State Department seems to affect everything, from development aid to military aid.

He only makes exceptions for emergency food aid and for military funding in favor of Israel and Egypt. The contents of the disclosed memo was confirmed by the BBC.

“No new funds will be engaged for new scholarships or extensions of existing scholarships until each new scholarship or proposed extension has been examined and approved,” said the rating addressed to the staff.

He adds that US officials “will immediately have to make orders to stop the work, in accordance with the terms of the sentence concerned, until the secretary determines, after examination”.

He also ordered that a large -scale examination of all foreign aid is completed within 85 days to ensure that aid adheres to President Trump’s foreign policy targets.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the highest American diplomat, has already said that all American expenses abroad should only take place if they make America “stronger”, “safer” or “more prosperous ».

A former senior state official told the BBC that this notification meant a “potentially enormous” impact on foreign aid programs funded by the United States.

“We can imagine, for example, that humanitarian demining programs in the world suddenly be said to cease their work. This is a big problem,” said Josh Paul, who supervised relations with the Congress on Transfers weapons in the State Department until the end of 2023.

Dave Harden, former mission director of the American International Aid Agency (USAID) in the Middle East, told BBC that this decision was “very significant”, saying that it could see humanitarian and development programs Funded by the United States in the world to be immediately suspended. While the exam is carried out.

He said it could affect a wide range of essential development projects, including water, sanitation and shelters.

“The employees of the implementation partner or (non -governmental organization) could be paid, but I think that real aid must be interrupted,” said Harden.

“I have known (help suspensions) on several occasions when I was a mission director in the West Bank and Gaza, but that was specific to this account. It’s global … It’s extremely large, “he said.

“Not only does it suspend the aid, but it also puts an order to stop work in the existing contracts which are already funded and in progress. It is extremely wide,” he added.

The AFP news agency reported that the freezing of funding could also potentially affect Ukraine, which has received billions of weapons under the predecessor of Trump, Joe Biden.

The Memo of Rubio, justifying the frost, indicates that it is impossible for the new administration to assess whether existing foreign assistance commitments “are not duplicating, are effective and are consistent with the foreign policy of President Trump” .

Rubio issued an exemption for emergency food aid, according to the memo.

This occurs in the middle of an influx of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip after the start of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and several other food crises in the world, including in Sudan.

The memo also indicates that derogations has so far been approved by Rubio for “foreign military funding for Israel and Egypt and administrative expenses, including wages, necessary to administer foreign military funding”.

The State Department has been contacted for comments.