The US administration has frozen part of the funds allocated by Congress to help foreign countries, CNN reported on Tuesday. 

The funds can no longer be used until the US Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) audit them.

Two departments should examine how much money is currently in these accounts and how they are spent. The money can be used again only three business days after the end of the audit, which may reportedly be delayed. In the meantime, funds must be spent before September 30, when the financial year ends in the US, otherwise, the permit for their use will expire. In the event that the administration, after verification, turns to Congress with a proposal to cancel the allocation of this money or to direct it to other needs, the legislature may not have time to answer, since now both houses are on summer vacation and will resume their activities only from the second week of September.

According to CNN, the number of funds in question can range from $ 2 billion to $ 4 billion. Funds were supposed to be spent on financing international organizations, international peacekeeping missions, the fight against drugs, health care, development assistance, as well as assistance to the armed forces of foreign states and assistance to states in Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia.

A senior administration official told CNN that "the accounts that are being looked at include programs that many over the years have considered wasteful like ones that would pay for solar panels in the Caribbean, a space program in Pakistan, soccer camps in Guatemala, and foreign aid to countries that aren't in the best interest of US foreign policy."