“Ukraine receives assistance from the United States under the Presidential Drawdown (PDA), Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), and Foreign Military Financing (FMF) programs. The executive order does not apply to these programs,” the center added.
However, Ukraine’s United States Agency for International Development reconstruction programs seem to be in limbo.
The executive order Trump signed Monday does not specify which kind of U.S. foreign aid programs will be frozen.
“The United States foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values. They serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries,” the order said.
It added that all department and agency heads with responsibility for foreign development assistance programs have to “immediately pause new obligations and disbursements” for 90 days while the aid is reviewed for an “assessment of programmatic efficiencies and consistency with United States foreign policy.”
Trump’s order seems to be mainly aimed at programs run by USAID, responsible for handing out $22 billion in civilian and development aid.
