President Donald Trump recently moved to cancel $4.9 billion in spending on foreign aid, the latest skirmish in the battle for control of the federal budget between the White House‘s Office of Management and Budget and Congress’s appropriations committees.

Trump’s Aug. 28 rescission message to Congress in effect declared that the administration will not spend funding provided in the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 2025. The proposal would nix $3.2 billion in international development program spending, $900 million in contributions to the United Nations, $326 million in international peacekeeping funds, and hundreds of millions of grants to foreign nations.