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State Department spokesperson says USAID funding review is a 90-day pause as cuts are assessed
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Tammy Bruce, spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, said the administration has paused some USAID awards for a 90-day review to look for waste, fraud and abuse, and acknowledged a public error in a fact sheet about annual foreign-aid spending that was corrected online.
Tammy Bruce, spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, told reporters the department has placed a 90-day pause on portions of U.S. foreign-aid spending to review whether funds are being used efficiently and to address potential waste, fraud and abuse.
The review, Bruce said at a State Department briefing, began after an initial inquiry into the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) books met resistance. "It began because there was no cooperation at the beginning," she said, adding the pause was intended "to look at the nature of how the taxpayer money has been spent and if it was being used in the proper way."…
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