Trump cancels 5 billion dollars of external aid using the pocket cancellation force

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President Donald Trump closed his week by informing Congress that he canceled nearly $ 5 billion of foreign aid that Congress has already agreed to at a time when the legislative branch faces a deadline on October 1 to finance government or deal with closure.

Trump cancels financing using the pocket cancellation. Contrary to the typical cancellation request that allows Congress to register in the approved financing mode within 45 days, the formation of the pocket avoids the conference because it is very close to the end of the fiscal year so that the legislative branch cannot behave accordingly.

“Last night, President Trump canceled $ 4.9 billion in America’s last help abroad using the pocket cancellation,” said the administration and budget office (OMB) on Friday. “[President Donald Trump] America will always put first! “

The White House moved to cancel 4.9 billion dollars from foreign aid with the “abolition” of the explosive “cancellation of the explosive as illegal

The cut funds included approximately $ 520 million from the contributions account in the account of international organizations, more than 390 million dollars for contributions to the account of international peacekeeping activities, $ 322 million from the Democracy Fund, $ 445 million from the Peacekeeping Operations account and more than 3 billion dollars of development assistance.

Meanwhile, legislators on both sides of the corridor are not happy with Trump’s decision to withdraw funding.

“Any effort to cancel the allocated funds without the approval of Congress is a clear violation of the law,” Susan Collins, Chairman of the Senate Credit, said in a statement on Friday.

Here’s what happened this week:

South Korea Summit

Trump started on Monday at the meeting of the new president of South Korea, Lee Jay Meong.

However, during the summit, he described his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and said that the two would meet “one day”. Trump met with Kim on three occasions during his first term in his position for nuclear disarmament talks – the first time in Singapore in 2018, then twice in 2019 in Vietnam and inside North Korea.

Trump tells Kim Jong Un’s relationship in the South Korean summit

A picture of a bulletin presented by Dong-A Ilbo from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump within the DMZ region that separates South Korea on June 30, 2019 in Panmungom, South Korea. (Dong-A Ilbo via Getty Images/Getty Images)

“I have very good relations with Kim Jong Un, North Korea,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday. “I mean, that many people say,” Oh, this is terrible. “No, in fact, I will see it.

Although the current Trump administration has indicated a constant interest in renewing nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea, Pyongyang did not show interest in the sincerity of the nuclear power.

The death penalty in Washington?

Trump has revealed that he intends to request the death penalty in Washington for those convicted of death as he continues his crime campaign in the country’s capital.

“If someone is killed in the capital, Washington, DC, we will search for the death penalty,” Trump told reporters during the cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “This is a very strong protective. And everyone who heard it agrees with it. I don’t know if we are ready for that in this country, but we have … we have no choice.”

In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled in the Foreman case against Georgia that the death penalty violated the eighth amendment sentence as a severe and unusual penalty. In addition, the Capital Council officially canceled the death penalty in 1981, according to the non -profit organization, the death penalty center.

The death penalty can return to the nation’s capital under the Trump campaign in the capital

Trump with Rubio and Higseth

President Donald Trump, along with Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, the left, and the Minister of Defense, Beit Higseth, right, speaks during the cabinet meeting in the Cabinet of the White House in Washington, August 26, 2025. .

It is not clear exactly how the White House intends to launch this effort and it has not immediately had additional details. The White House referred Fox News to Trump’s comments at the cabinet meeting.

However, Trump signed an executive order in January entitled “Restore the death penalty and the protection of public safety.” The Prosecutor’s order guides to “follow up on the death penalty for all severity crimes that require its use.”

“The death penalty is an essential tool to deter and punish those who commit the most deadly crimes and acts of violence against American citizens,” the matter said. “Before, during and after the establishment of the United States, our cities, our countries and our country have adopted continuously on the death penalty as a final deterrent and a suitable penalty only for more anxious crimes.”

Trump weighs a crushing barrel

Trump merchants are also in discussing whether the cracking barrel should update its logo, and urge the restaurant chain, unlike its decision to change its logo to remove “Uncle Hershel”.

“Cracker Barrel should return to the old logo, and he admits the error based on the response of customers (the final survey) and the company’s management better than ever,” Trump said in a social media post on Tuesday.

The outer surface of the cracking barrel after announcing a new logo and rename the brand.

General view of a barrel store in Fiskel, New York, August 25, 2025. (Richard Beetham in favor of Fox News Digital)

Later on Tuesday, Cracker Barre announced that it had heard the customers and that the new slogan was “going far” and that the previous tape that was present since 1977 would remain.

The White House seemed to be credited with igniting the change, and the White House press secretary Caroline Levitte on X, “8 hours ago …” with a screenshot of Trump’s original social media participation, in response to the Cracker Brelk update about returning to the previous logo.

“I congratulate us” a barrel of cracking, “Trump said in a post of social media on Tuesday.” All your fans appreciate this a lot. “

Alex Miller in Fox News contributed to this report.

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