c/europe · u/CAVOK@lemmy.world · 92 points
**In short:**
Three European nations have asked the Trump administration for their unspent USAID contributions to be refunded.
Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands had been partnering with USAID on a project called Water and Energy for Food, or WE4F.
**What's next?**
The nations have asked for an explanation from the US government on whether the funds will be spent, or if they can be refunded.
u/bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 points
Why wouldn't it matter? The money was paid to USAID and meant to be used for a specific purpose. Now the American state decides to just keep the the money instead and use it to consolidate its budget, than that's misappropriation and should be paid back
u/aleq@lemmy.world · 2 points
Should be, but I don't have much faith in the US or Swedish government. As long as it's earmarked I guess it doesn't really matter if they're not paid back, feels more like a symbolic gesture (which I'm not against, but still) to ask for it back.
u/bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 points
I would say it's most likely they were strictly earmarked. Aren't they always?
u/aleq@lemmy.world · 8 points
Disregarding any gut feelings I may or may not have of this administration, they just cut funding to USAID right? The article makes it sound like these contributions are marked (or else it would be difficult to talk about it being "unspent"), so they can't be used for things such as administrative costs and so on?
u/Agility0971@lemmy.world · 1 points
How can you say refunded in the article lol?