Trump’s 2018 Budget Proposal Seeks Drastic Cuts of Foreign Aid Spending in Mexico Gabriel Stargardter - Reuters
go to original May 23, 2017

The Trump administration dropped their budget for next year on May 23. Here are three of the biggest cuts it proposes. (Washington Post)

President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed drastically slashing U.S. foreign aid spending in Mexico and Central America, which are struggling with drug violence, graft and poverty that prompts many from the troubled region to migrate north.

Trump's austere 2018 budget proposal, which seeks to trim $3.6 trillion (2.7 trillion pounds) from government spending over the next decade and is unlikely to get legislative approval in its current form, envisages steep cuts in most federal departments, but particularly the State Department.

Ever since launching his presidential campaign in 2015, Trump has attacked Mexico, threatening to rip up the North American Free Trade Agreement, build a Mexico-funded southern border wall and ramp up deportations of those living without documents in the United States.

Tuesday's proposal foresees 2018 Mexican aid of $87.66 million, down more than 45 percent from the 2016 outlay.

The proposed spending cuts comes as the United States leans on Mexico to do more to prop up its poor Central American neighbors, where poverty and gangs are the main drivers pushing migrants to the United States.

The budget proposes scrapping most U.S. money for the Mexican military, along with counter terrorism funds and some governance programs. Narcotics and law enforcement spending would fall from $100 million in 2016 to $60 million.

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