Congress passed a package to retract $7.9 billion previously designated for disease control, disaster relief, and democracy promotion, responding to the White House's plan to reduce foreign aid. Details regarding which specific programs will face cuts remain ambiguous, causing uncertainty among nonprofit organizations involved in aid. Lisa Bos highlighted the confusion regarding implementation. The White House's claims of taxpayer waste lack supporting evidence. The rescission document specifies broad categories affected, like global health and refugee assistance, without offering specifics on the cuts' applications.
"Quite honestly, we really don't know," says Lisa Bos, the vice president of policy and government relations at InterAction, an alliance of aid groups. "It's very hard to understand how these cuts will be implemented going forward."
The administration has yet to provide evidence to support its allegations. Nor did the White House provide details in the rescission document sent to Congress for approval.
The rescission package codifies the cuts to foreign aid that the administration and the Department of Government Efficiency made earlier this year during its dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development.
They won't tell us how they're going to apply the cuts," Sen. Mitch McConnell told reporters on July 16.
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