President Trump signs order announcing 90-day pause in foreign assistance President Donald Trump has signed an executive order reevaluating and realigning foreign #aid, which announces a 90-day pause in #foreign assistance. "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered <...> 90-day pause in United States foreign development assistance for assessment of programmatic efficiencies and consistency with United States foreign policy," reads the document published on the White House website. According to the order, "disbursements of foreign development assistance funds may resume for a program prior to the end of the 90-day period if a review is conducted." The document points out that "the United States foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values." "They serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries," the order adds.