The Palau Red Cross Society said the agency has lost $600,000 in grants due to President Trump’s USAID cuts.
In a letter to the Olbiil Era Kelulau, Palau Red Cross expressed support for President Whipps’s supplemental budget request, which included $75,000 for the Red Cross.
“The organization is currently facing challenges due to the effects of the US Presidential Executive Orders issued earlier this year,” the letter stated.
Red Cross said they have lost two grants that are supposedly funded by USAID. One of them is the “Strengthening Locally Led Early Warning /Response Capacity in the North Pacific Project,” which amounts to $295,000.
The other grant is worth $300,000 for Outfitting the Red Cross Warehouse and Training Center.
In January, President Trump signed an executive order to implement a 90-day freeze on US foreign aid spending while all programs were reviewed.
According to the news, 83 percent of all programs managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) had already been canceled halfway through this period. (By: Bernadette Carreon)