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US to axe grants to 10,000 aid organisations

Decision to cut funding came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio reviewed projects ‘on an individualised basis’

Almost 10,000 organisations receiving aid dollars from the US will have their grants permanently axed as President Donald Trump pushes ahead with his plan to dismantle the country’s wide-ranging foreign assistance programme.

Letters are being sent out to nearly 5,800 organisations that receive funding from the US Agency for International Development telling them to “cease all activities”, according to filings in a US district court. A further 4,100 State Department recipients will be slashed.

Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, had reviewed the grants “on an individualised basis”, according to the filing. About 3,200 of them, worth more than $50bn, would be left in place.

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