The US Department of State has cancelled 139 “wasteful grants” across the world worth $215 million, the Department of Government Efficiency informs.
Axed grants include a $14.6 million program that supported “expanded newsroom sustainability and engagement” in Moldova; a $5.2 million “media diversity” grant that funded an “anti-disinformation program in the United Kingdom”; a $2mgrant for “Advancing Democratic Culture” in Armenia; a $1 million grant “channeling gig workers’ rights” in Brazil; and a $750,000 grant for “building the migrant domestic worker-led movement” in Lebanon.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed off on the cuts Monday night, and they will be “actioned” starting today, according to a senior State Department official.