Trump Cuts Aid, Purchases Expensive Art

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Trump cut lifesaving foreign aid as State Department planned to buy expensive art for embassies

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The State Department planned to purchase a $ 650,000 “triple-height suspended sculpture” for its embassy in Brasília .

$ 550,000 was set aside for “ three ceiling suspended sculptures” that would hang in the “main atrium space” of the American embassy in Riyadh .

A State Department spokesperson said that they had been developed and approved by the Biden administration.

The Trump administration is firing some 2,000 USAID workers in the United States and is set to recall nearly all of the agency’s officers stationed abroad.

A federal judge cleared the way for the plan to move ahead, with most internationally based USAID employees given 30 days to return to the U.S ..

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