Nick Schifrin:
We’re talking about everything, including security assistance around the world. So $40 billion is generally the total that’s cited in terms of total foreign assistance. About half of that is military assistance. So this affects security assistance or some of the security assistance, certainly, to Ukraine, to Taiwan, to Jordan.
These are key U.S. allies and partners around the world. And it’s not just weapons. It’s things like training. But on top of military assistance, this is what the U.S. government calls security assistance. So that’s police. There’s some $2 billion for policing around the world. And so, as you identified at the top, some of this is for Mexican police who are supposed to go after the cartels that have just been labeled foreign terrorist organizations, who are supposed to interdict fentanyl that has affected so much — so many communities in the United States.
So this really goes so far across the world, West Africa against counterterrorism funding through this program. So there are big questions about how much — how long this will last, how the Trump team will resume it. They say that they simply don’t have enough visibility into all of these programs. They need to pause it in order to better understand it and align it with their vision.
