{"id":9375,"date":"2025-02-10T04:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T04:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=9375"},"modified":"2025-02-10T04:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T04:50:11","slug":"the-trump-governments-suspension-of-usaid-assistance-includes-around-150-million-in-funding-pledged-to-myanmar-human-rights-myanmar-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=9375","title":{"rendered":"The Trump government\u2019s suspension of USAID assistance includes around $150 million in funding pledged to Myanmar, Human Rights Myanmar reported"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7 February 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">USAID has pledged $8 million for seven human rights protection projects to protect Myanmar\u2019s freedoms, $30 million for nine democracy promotion projects, and $1 million for two independent media support programs, totaling nearly $40 million. It is not yet known when the funds will be allowed after the Trump government\u2019s suspension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to human rights and democracy, around $110 million in funding pledged to Myanmar projects under USAID, including $22 million in humanitarian assistance, $30 million in education, $22 million in health, and $33 million in agriculture, has also been suspended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#USAID #Trump #Myanmar #mtnews<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 February 2025 USAID has pledged $8 million for seven human rights protection projects to protect Myanmar\u2019s freedoms,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9377,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions\/9377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}