Following Trump's executive order, Secretary Rubio and Peter Morocco, the new director of the State Department's Office of Foreign Assistance, issued a Stop work order on all 6,200 grants and contracts worldwide. They also ordered an immediate pause on new foreign assistance spending. That meant that partners who had already completed work were not getting paid. Contracts that had already been signed couldn't be executed. (02:59–03:03)
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Asserts that there was an immediate pause on new foreign assistance spending.
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