The United States has canceled funding for the "Advancing Democratic Culture" program in Armenia. This was reported by the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

, headed by multibillionaire Elon Musk, an ally of US President Donald Trump.

A total of $2 million was planned to be allocated for this program.

The United States' decision has called such spending "wasteful."

“In addition to the ones below, they also cancelled these wasteful grants:

-$1.4mm for ‘Preventing Internet Fragmentation’ in Brazil

- $750k for ‘Enabling Civil Society Resilience and Adaptation’ in Kyrgyzstan

- $1mm for ‘Building Trust and Keeping Hope Alive’ in Sri Lanka

-$2mm for ‘Advancing Democratic Culture’ in Armenia,” DOGE noted on X.

In total, the US government has canceled $215 million in “wasteful grants” that were to be implemented in the UK, Moldova, Brazil, and some other countries.