The Trump administration released $ 5.3 billion in previously frozen foreign aid, mostly for security and landscotal programs, according to a list of exceptions reviewed by Reuters that included only limited humanitarian relief. Bureau of International Security and nonproliferation, which focused on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, received 17 exceptions to a value of more than $ 30.4 million, showed the list. Also released was $ 397 million for a US-supported program in nuclear armed Pakistan that a congressman said monitored Islamabad’s use of US-made F-16 fighter jets to ensure they are employed for terrorist operations and not against rival India. President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day break on foreign assistance shortly after accession on January 20, stopping funding to everything from programs fighting hunger and deadly diseases to delivering shelters to millions of displaced people across the globe. Freeze triggered an encryption of US officials and humanitarian organizations for exceptions to keep programs going. State Secretary Marco Rubio, who has said that all foreign assistance must adapt to Trump’s "America first" Priorities, exceptions issued at the end of January on military assistance to Israel and Egypt, the top US allies in the Middle East and for life -saving humanitarian help, including food. The exceptions meant that these funds should have been allowed to be used. However, current and former US officials and aid organizations say that few humanitarian help has been approved from humanitarian assistance. Reuters obtained a list of 243 additional exceptions approved by 13 February of a total of $ 5.3 billion. The list contains the most comprehensive accounting of exempted funds as Trump ordered Aid Freeze and reflects the White House’s desire to cut help to programs that do not consider important to US national security. The list identifies programs that will be funded and the US government office administering them. The vast majority of released funds-more than $ 4.1 billion for programs administered by the US Foreign Ministry’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs overseeing weapons sales and military assistance to other countries and groups. Other exceptions were in line with Trump’s immigration crashes and efforts to stop the flow of illegal drugs in the United States, including the deadly opioid fentanyl. More than half of the programs that are allowed to move forward are run by the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs or Inl, aiming to help fight drug trafficking and illegal migration to the United States, according to the list. These exceptions were worth $ 293 million and included funds for databases to trace migrants, identify possible terrorists and share biometric information. A spokesman for the Ministry of State did not respond to a request for comment. Reuters could not determine if some exceptions had been awarded but were not on the list. Trump has long written against foreign aid, which has an average of less than 2% of total federal expenses over the last 20 years, according to the non -Party’s committee for a responsible federal budget. Trump has described the United States "Foreign aid industry" seam "In many cases antithetic to US values". Billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has led effort to gut the US Agency for International Development, the Main Supply Mechanism for US Foreign Aid and a Critical Tool for us "Soft force" to gain influence abroad. Unlike security-related programs, USID programs received less than $ 100 million in exceptions, according to the list. It can be compared to approx. $ 40 billion in USAID programs administered annually before the freezer. Exempt USID programs included $ 78 million for humanitarian assistance in Gaza, which has been destroyed by war. A separate $ 56 million was released for the International Committee of the Red Cross related to the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, the list showed. The list did not include specific exceptions to some of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, including Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Myanmar and Afghanistan, which means funds for these places seemed to remain stopped. Security exemptions included $ 870 million for Taiwan programs, $ 336 million to modernize Filipino security forces and more than $ 21.5 million for body armor and armored vehicles to Ukraine’s national police and border guards, the list showed. The biggest exemption from non-security was $ 500 million in financing for pepar, the US program fighting for the flagship fighting for HIV/AIDS, which mainly funds healthcare in Africa and is credited to save millions of lives. It is compared to PepFar’s annual budget in 2024 of $ 6.5 billion. Pepfar is administered by the Global Health Bureau of the State Department.