The $4.9 billion in cuts target programs of the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Trump wrote in a letter to the House of Representatives.
Democrats have warned that any attempt to reverse funding already approved by Congress would doom negotiations to avoid budgetary paralysis, the so-called shutdown, later this year.
“It’s clear neither Trump nor Congressional Republicans have any plan to avoid a painful and entirely unnecessary shutdown,“ he said.
A White House official told reporters the administration has a “solid legal basis” for Trump’s maneuver -- and that any challenge in court would fail.
Trump has effectively dismantled USAID, the world's largest humanitarian aid agency, since taking office.
Rubio welcomed Trump’s latest move as part of “rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse from the US government, saving American workers billions of dollars.”
Research published in The Lancet journal in June estimated that the previous round of USAID cuts could result in the preventable deaths of more than 14 million vulnerable people worldwide -- a third of them small children.
“This is going to make our budget situation or liquidity situation that much more challenging,“ United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric told a press conference.
Republicans control both chambers of Congress, but need Democrat support in the Senate to pass new spending laws.
The United States last averted shutdown, with hours to spare, in March.
Up to 900,000 federal employees can be furloughed, while another million deemed essential -- from air traffic controllers to police -- work but forego pay until normal service resumes - AFP
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