Updated on January 21, 2025, at 3:50 pm EST
President Trump has ordered a 90-day pause on US “foreign development assistance” as one of his many executive orders signed on Monday night.
It’s unclear how extensive the order is or if it will have any impact on military aid to foreign countries. Ukrainian officials say the order doesn’t apply to weapons flowing to Ukraine or any economic aid that’s been approved by President Biden, and the order isn’t expected to apply to weapons shipments to Israel.
According to The Associated Press, it’s not “immediately clear how much assistance would initially be affected by the Monday order as funding for many programs has already been appropriated by Congress and is obligated to be spent if not already spent.”
The purpose of the order is to review each program’s “efficiency and consistency with United States foreign policy,” a process that will be overseen by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was one of the most hawkish members of Congress during his time in the Senate.
The order reads that it is the “policy of [the] United States that no further United States foreign assistance shall be disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States.”
The order says that each review “shall be ordered by the responsible department and agency heads under guidelines provided by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the” White House’s Office of Management and Budget.
Another order signed by Trump directed Rubio to enact an “America First” foreign policy. “As soon as practicable, the Secretary of State shall issue guidance bringing the Department of State’s policies, programs, personnel, and operations in line with an America First foreign policy, which puts America and its interests first,” the order reads.
And by “America”, they mean Miriam Adelson.
She was on the dais, behind Hilary Clinton. grading his address.
You bet your bippy she was……………….
As a physician, she was supposed to adhere to the oath all doctors take, to do no harm.
With an exception: kill all Palestinians, be they infants, children, women, elderly.
Quoted by The Libertarian Institute, "On the campaign trail, Trump vowed he would bring the war in Ukraine to an end on the first day of his administration."
I'm on the West Coast, so, if Trump wasn't lying, he has 11 hours and ~10 minutes (Washington DC time) to accomplish this.
ROTFLMAO!
LOL!
Post de jure!
Humor is essential to pursuits of Peace!
https://thecradle.co/articles/on-the-eve-of-trump-iran-and-russia-launch-historical-deal
Pepe Escobar
I wonder how this order will fly with our "Israel First" congress?
It will fly just fine — the order expressly authorizes the secretary of state to waive the pause, and the chances of it not being waived for Israel are closer to none than to slim.
As long as President Trump approves the waiver. That’s called “Power”.
… actually that would be dispatching Special Envoy Steven Witkoff, the very tough NY real estate developer.
Trump is the TV president. We all know who the real emperor is, and where the real power lives.
Tel Aviv.
Notice who was on the dais with others?
Mariam Adelson.
Palestinians, in fact the entire ME is f*cked.
Maybe we should fear the whole world is f*cked by the time the Almighty Trump is done with it, the globe is his toy, he can kick it around as he pleases.
Musk is in really deep doo-doo now. Everybody knows you're not allowed to raise your arm above your shoulder!! That's a definite No No. :
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1881547272556777647
The Bellamy Salute was canned because of the similarity to the NAZI salute.
I don't care what anyone says, Musk's salute was a perfect NAZI salute, accompanied by the fervent look on his face.
People know a Nazi salute when they see one.
Musk gave a Nazi salute.
https://x.com/MarkSimoneNY/status/1882175342917611592
Why would I watch a Maddow clip?
I can't tell you how bad I feel about the news President Trump has stripped John Bolton of his security clearance and detail on day one. How awful. LOL
And when a future President does the same to trump how will you feel?
Bolton is a back-stabbing scoundrel, and Trump won't care because he's up there in age.
Trump got even with Biden and Bolton, they, all three, really deserve each other.
New precedents have now been set by Biden dealing with blanket pardons that Trump may well use in 4 years.
Mr. Trump's Supreme Court has made any and all acts of future Presidents beyond the law.
Mr. Trump went far beyond the law when he pardoned ALL J6 insurrectionists, even those who committed violent acts that injured Capitol police officers, 140 of them.
Oath Keepers? Hah! Where were they when the oil companies, with the backing of the Trump administration, trampled treaties, which our forefathers said were the "law of the land", particularly at Standing Rock?
Mr. Trump has created his own militia, who will be at his beck and call.
DC has become a lawless mad house, or is it just a nightmare?
It’s been a lawless madhouse since 1790.
Thomas but this is just the first day, what about 4 years?
Well, it will almost certainly be bad.
But it usually is.
Trump’s really just another politician. Worse than some, not much better than others.
It’s been a lawless madhouse since 1790.
Promotional gifts (writing instruments), stinginess, greed versus beneficence, downsizing, withdrawal from WHO and Paris Climate Agreement at the beginning of the presidency
President Donald Trump signs executive orders at Capital One Arena
https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/president-trump-signs-executive-orders-at-capitol-one-arena/5150217
https://www.esgdive.com/news/trump-day-one-withdraws-paris-agreement-declares-energy-emergency/737871/
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/environmental-social-and-governance-ESG
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/putting-america-first-in-international-environmental-agreements/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-executive-withdrawing-world-health-organization-2025-01-21/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-inaugural-address-was-just-another-maga-rally-speech.html
https://coinmarketcap.com/de/currencies/maga/
Cracks me up seeing Melania wearing her Spy v Spy hat.
One weird picture, right there.
Looking at the First Lady's hat, I associate it with Mexican folklore and how Mexico's Presidenta Sheinbaum might react to President Trump's decisions regarding the USMCA treaty.
https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/united-states-mexico-canada-agreement
https://www.thenorthamericanproject.com/en
https://www.gob.mx/presidencia/en
https://www-gob-mx.translate.goog/presidencia/prensa/siempre-voy-a-defender-a-mexico-por-encima-de-todo-presidenta-claudia-sheinbaum-sobre-ordenes-ejecutivas-firmadas-por-el-presidente-de-eua-donald-trump?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp
What a circus, what a megalomaniac that man is.
He is sure he is God Almighty.
How embarrassing for the nation, it is beyond funny.
Wasn't Musk assign to this so called efficiency process…?!
Here’s the actual executive order.
Pull quote, emphasis mine:
“It is the policy of United States that no further United States foreign assistance shall be disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States. ”
As for efficiency, Musk heads an advisory committee that has exactly the same power to make recommendations as you or I do, just with some office space and media coverage. Under this executive order, action actually occurs:
“All department and agency heads with responsibility for United States foreign development assistance programs shall immediately pause new obligations and disbursements of development assistance funds to foreign countries and implementing non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and contractors pending reviews of such programs for programmatic efficiency and consistency with United States foreign policy, to be conducted within 90 days of this order. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) shall enforce this pause through its apportionment authority.”
Obviously, the news client netman does not read the internet links in Dave DeCamp's article, because his first internet link in the article (has ordered a 90-day pause Sec. 2., Sec. 3. (a)) already contains Thomas L. Knapp's answer.
Musk and Trump show an extreme character of hubris as Musk gives the Hitler salute (The Roman Salute) in the Capital One Arena meeting and Trump (Emperor of America) populistically moves his business to the arena.
https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/populism/
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/kiel-focus/the-economic-consequences-of-populism/
https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/what-did-elon-musk-get-on-day-1-of-donald-trumps-new-government-13855028.html
https://romanempiretimes.com/the-roman-salute-saluto-romano-how-did-the-romans-greet-each-other/
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/roman-emperors-guide-facts/
How Powerful was the Roman Emperor? Part 1
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5850088/ Hubris and Sciences https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4952940/pdf/428.pdf Hubris syndrome
https://effectiviology.com/hubris/
https://www.greecehighdefinition.com/blog/2024/9/1/the-ancient-greek-concept-of-hubris-and-its-modern-day-relevance
https://literarydevices.net/hubris/
God, Trump the Almighty, knows what he is doing. If he orders it, it is the right thing to do. HE is MAGA ON STEROIDS. He rules the world.
Some rude awakening, a normal rational person would not act so impulsively and irrational as that man does. He belongs in a nut house.
How about a 9 million day Pause on ‘Foreign Development
Assistance?
How about Domestic Development Assistance via reduced regulations and reduced government interference?