The US State Department has canceled the allocation of grants to a number of countries, including Armenia

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has canceled grants to foreign countries totaling $215 million.

This was reported by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on social network X.

"Secretary Rubio continues to carefully review the State Department's foreign aid, canceling 139 useless grants totaling $215 million today," the department's message states.

According to the data, the projects were in Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Brazil, Great Britain, Lebanon, Mauritania, Moldova, Tunisia, and Uzbekistan.

On Monday, The Washington Post, citing a document in its possession, reported that US President Donald Trump's administration plans to cut the State Department's budget by almost half. According to the newspaper, the White House proposes allocating $28.4 billion for the activities of the State Department and the Agency for International Development (USAID), which is $27 billion (48%) less than the funding approved by Congress for 2025.