According to multiple news sources, on January 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) suspended funding to organizations that provide recently arrived refugees with assistance on housing, job placement, and other needs during their first three months in the United States, as part of a broader pause on foreign aid by the Trump administration. The letter was sent by DOS’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, to the handful of agencies that contract with the federal government to help refugees integrate into society and the labor market after arrival. The letter noted that grant funding is “immediately suspended” pending a 90-day review of foreign assistance, after which decisions will be made about the longer-term future of the funding. According to Reuters, the refugee agencies “must immediately ‘stop all work’ and ‘not incur any new costs’ under the grant[s]. The letter said the agency ‘must cancel as many outstanding obligations as possible.’” Reuters also estimated that the funding pause “stands to affect at least 26,494 refugees and recipients of Special Immigrant Visas
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