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Government officials from Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands told the Associated Press that a community amount worth $ 15 million contributed to the joint development work abroad, which was stopped inThe United States Agency for International DevelopmentFor several months.

After the Republican Administration and the Ministry of Governmental efficiency in holding the United States Agency for International Development and the quantity reduced its programs, the Europeans asked whether their money will be transferred to projects as expected or responded.

They did not get any response.

“It is a source of concern for us, especially because we want our partner’s organizations to be compensated for the work they put in the programs,” said Julia Lindholm, a spokeswoman for the Swedish Agency for the Swedish government.

The real total may be greater. Other foreign governments also had funds for the US International Development Agency for Distribution in a group of joint development projects at the time when President Donald Trump ordered the freezing of funding on January 20, according to an official who is directly aware of the issue that was not permitted to comment publicly and spoke on the condition that its identity is not disclosed.

Fears indicate the extent that the sudden parts of the new administration of external assistance and the abolition of humanitarian business and development contracts about Washington’s financial reliability. It also shows more pressure among the allies as Trump renews US foreign policy.

The US Department of State and the International Development Agency did not immediately respond to questions that are asking about the number of foreign governments that have funds for joint development programs that are not running and not interested in freezing the United States Agency for International Development, and how much money was in total, and whether the administration is doing anything about it.

Fears of American allies

Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands have been a partnership with the United States Agency for International Development in a project called Water and Energy for Food, or We4F. It helps farmers and others in poor countries to develop innovative ways to develop more foods without connecting water supply or depending on the energy forms of climate.

“More importantly,” Lindholm said by e -mail, said that the failure of the United States so far to disburse or recover allies’ donations harm “6 million of the poorest farmers and the most vulnerable in the world who depend on their food production techniques and food security.”

Other administration procedures have already sparked traditional partners. Trump said that he will not necessarily follow the mutual defense agreement behind the NATO security agreement, and he has developed some talk points in Russia and its demands in its invasion of Ukraine and imposed a tariff on Canada, the European Union and others.

America as a reliable financial partner

Now, doubts about the United States as a reliable commercial partner appeared in the lawsuit regarding the sudden abolition of the administration of what Foreign Minister Marco Rubio N. 83 % of the United States Agency for International Development said, forcing partner organizations to benefit from workers and leaders of some businesses.

In a short period of support for a lawsuit from federal workers, former defense secretaries Chuck Hagil and William Perry, former CIA director Michael Hayden, and more than ten other former former US officials said that the collective cancellation of thousands of US International Development Agency contracts escaped from American financial regulations and “destroying the credibility of the United States as a reliable partner.”

Former officials said that the cancellation of contracts “sends a message that this administration does not feel binding on these regulations – the regulations on which all the works that work with the United States depend on.”

In another case, lawyers of the non -profit organizations and companies that seek to obtain a payment from the American International Development Agency told the judge that due to the financial chaos surrounding the dismantling of the agency, banks have stopped what the routine funding of the American Agency for International Development was based on their contracts with the US Agency.

Since the Cold War, the national security argument for development programs has been making the poorest countries more prosperous and stable reduces refugee and conflict flows.

Trump and Misk claim external assistance through the United States Agency for International Development in particular, a fraud and fraud. Administration officials are looking to focus on US development efforts to combat China’s influence abroad and increase American trade and trade opportunities.

Searching for money from the Trump administration

Initially, I have initially sent the movements of foreign management, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands initially emails for the US Agency for International Development that inquire about the money they stopped in the US Agency’s International Development Agency accounts.

Two of them in emails from the government to the government warned that they were looking to speak to the local media about their missing money, according to the officially familiar official.

Under the court order, the administration began achieving good over about two billion dollars from the United States of America already due when Trump ordered the freezing of the United States Agency for International Development and Foreign Ministry in the Foreign Ministry on the opening day.

But forced papers and releases have extracted most of the officials and workers at the USA headquarters for the job. This includes many of those who supervised development programs and will participate in tracking numbers and calculating any recovered amounts of foreign governments.

The Swedish Development Agency told Associated Doctors that it is estimated at a total of $ 12 million, including $ 5.1 million for WE4F, which sits in the US Agency’s International Development Agency accounts – money that does not run for people in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and not funded by the administration.

Lindholm, a spokeswoman for the Sweden Development Agency, described the We4F program as “unusually influencing”, with measurable benefits for farmers and others several times of the initial goals of the program.

The Norwegian Development Cooperation Agency has told the AP that it had not received any information about the fate of a $ 1.4 million financing segment for WE4F since Trump began to solve the United States Agency for International Development.

The Dutch Foreign Ministry said it had contacted the American Agency for the US Agency for the $ 1.6 million it provided to the WE4F that has not yet been disbursed by the United States Agency for International Development and must be returned, but has not yet received any response.

“Donor partners are now exploring other opportunities to continue running the We4F program to ensure the completion of an official,” said Lindholm by email.

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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