Washington: Trump administration said Thursday, March 27.
“This food and nutritional support via @WFP will provide food and nutritional assistance required for more than a million people,” said the spokesperson for the American State Department, Tammy Bruce, in an article on X. “It is important that our international partners engage with the sharing of the burden with vital aid like this.”
The infusion comes as US President Donald Trump and his administration have made radical discounts with a foreign aid as part of his “America First” program and wider efforts to considerably reduce federal spending and dismantle parts of the US government.
Two United Nations agencies had warned that a financing deficit would limit the Rations of the Rohingyas in Bangladesh who have fled violence in neighboring Myanmar for the past eight years. Refugees have worried that the cuts aggravate hungerCroit critical health care and fuel crime.
Washington had been the largest Rohingyas refugee assistance provider, contributing nearly $ 2.4 billion since 2017, according to the State Department. But the recent freeze on funds after Trump took office in January forced at least five hospitals to reduce services.
