Washington:
The US State Department is expected to propose an unprecedented disintegration of Washington’s diplomatic access, several news outlets reported on Tuesday, shut down the programs and reduced embassies around the world by about 50 percent.
Proposals inherent in an internal departmental memorandum will eliminate almost all funds for international organizations including the United Nations and NATO, as part of a serious discussion by senior officials.
Financial assistance for international peace will be curbed on one of the most prestigious American scholarships, with funds such as educational and cultural exchange.
The scheme comes with a scales about extensive attacks on government expenditure with President Donald Trump and the major role of America on the international stage.
State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce told reporters, “No final plan, final budget, final is dynamic. ,
Bruce said on Tuesday, “It is dependent on the President of the White House and the United States as he continues to work on his budget plan and what he will present to the Congress.”
He said that State Secretary Marco Rubio had “reiterated our complete commitment to NATO, as is the President of the United States.”
The American Foreign Service Association called the proposed deduction “careless and dangerous”, while the former US ambassador to Moscow McFall blown away “a huge gift to the Communist Party of China”.
Memo says that according to the New York Times, the state department will request a budget of $ 28.4 billion in the financial year 2026, which is starting from October 1 – $ 26 billion less than the 2025 figure.
Although it is very rare to say about human aid, programs dealing with tropical disease, providing vaccines to children in developing countries and promoting maternal and child health, Times said.
The Washington Post stated that the remains of the USAID – the huge development agency already crippled and blocked the eyes to close by Trump and Musk – is considered by the writers of the memo to be completely absorbed in the state department.
Only the Congress – the majority Republican still needs some democratic votes to pass most of the laws – can authorize such deductions.
But the proposals will have a large -scale loom in the talks of MPs in the budget of 2026.
Government departments were facing the deadline of this week to send their plans to cut the White House, but the Foreign Department has not yet made any public announcement.
It is not clear that Rubio has supported the April 10 memo, but they will need to sign any cut before the Congress is considered.
According to the Politics Outlet Panchbol News, the document shut down 10 embassies and 17 consulates, including missions in Eritrea, Luxembourg, South Sudan and Malta.
The five consulates kept to close are in France, while two are in Germany, Panchbol said. The list also includes missions in Scotland and Italy.
In Canada, the US consulates in Montreal and Halifax will be reduced to provide “final-meal” diplomacy with minimal local support, “the website explained the document.
The American missions for international bodies such as economic cooperation and development organization and United Nations children, UNICEF will be merged with diplomatic outposts in the city where they are located.
Meanwhile, Rubio wrote on Tuesday that the state department had canceled 139 dollars of $ 214 million for “misleading programs” citing an anti -hate speech project in Britain as an example.
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