Over 90 percent of all contracts with the aid agency USAID are to be terminated. This concerns 5,800 of the 6,200 long-term contracts. Additionally, 4,100 of 9,100 grants from the Foreign Ministry are being closed.
The value of the contracts is estimated to be around 640 billion kronor.
The extensive cuts are described both in an internal memo obtained by AP and in court proceedings. The Foreign Ministry states that Foreign Minister Marco Rubio has reviewed the terminations.
Deadline from the Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court is simultaneously, for the time being, putting off a decision from a judge who has demanded that the government pay out aid for contracts entered into before Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20.
The judge had, following a lawsuit from aid organizations, set a deadline for the payments to midnight local time.
The Supreme Court is blocking the judge's ruling until it has had a chance to review the matter.
The World's Largest
It was at the beginning of February that the news came that USAID would be shut down and aid frozen. Since then, thousands of aid and development programs around the world have been terminated.
The Trump administration has also decided to furlough nearly the entire staff of the agency.
USAID has had offices in around 60 countries and operations in around 120 countries and is considered the world's single largest donor of aid.
