O Donald Trump He asked the US Congress to approve additional cuts of $ 4.9 billion in international aid, now known by the White House, a statement that significantly increases the chances of “paralysis” of the federal state in late September.

The cuts “concern the Ministry of Foreign Affairs programs, as well as the United Nations Service for International Development and International Assistance programs”, explains the letter sent to the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives and was released by the White House budget office.

President Trump “will always put America first,” the office wrote in X.

The Democrats had recently announced that any intention of the US president to undo funds that have already been approved by Congress would destroy any possibility of negotiating with them in order to avoid the possibility of fiscal paralysis, the well -known “Shutdown”.

According to the New York Post, which revealed this night last night, the vast majority of cuts – 3.2 billion dollars concerns funds to the US Service for International Development (USAID).

Donald Trump has already suspended billions of dollars funded for international aid after returning to the White House and formally disrupted USAID, which has been absorbed today by the Foreign Ministry.