The White House budget director confirmed on Saturday that the Trump administration will propose “fairly dramatic reductions” in the US foreign aid budget later this month. “We are going to propose to reduce foreign aid and we are going to propose to spend that money here,” White House Office of Management Budget director Mick Mulvaney told Fox News, adding the proposed cuts would include “fairly dramatic reductions in foreign aid”. Mulvaney said the cuts in foreign aid would help the administration fund a proposed $54bn expansion of the US military budget. “We know from our service in uniform that many of the crises our nation faces do not have military solutions alone.”Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, tweeted earlier this week: “Foreign aid is not charity. Reuters has reported the administration plans significant proposed cuts in many other domestic programs.

Source: The Guardian March 04, 2017 19:30 UTC