At midnight on Sept. 30, the federal government will close its books on another fiscal year. For hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid, that routine accounting deadline could decide whether the money ever reaches the programs Congress selected.
Democratic Sens. Patty Murray and Brian Schatz say the Trump administration is preparing to let $725 million pass that deadline without committing it to new projects. They have also accused the White House of taking another $2.5 billion, originally approved for global health and development, and using it to pay for the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development. This information was published in a report by Politico.
