The US State Department is expected to propose an unprecedented scaling of Washington’s diplomatic access, several news outlets reported on Tuesday, shut down the programs, shut down programs around the world and reduced the budget by about 50 percent.
Proposals inherent in an internal departmental memorandum will eliminate almost all funds for international organizations such as 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.
But the American Foreign Service Association called the proposed deduction “careless and dangerous”, while the former US ambassador to Moscow McFall reduced the “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.
Usaid – Development Agency – Mermo’s authors are believed to have been completely absorbed in the State Department, the Washington Post said.
Only Republican-controlled Congress-Most of the laws that require democratic votes to pass-the right to sign.
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 State Secretary Marco Rubio has supported the April 10 memo, but they will need to sign any cut before considering the Congress.
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.
The AFP approached the state department for comment but there was no immediate response.
