Alarm for charities as Trump pledges to ax foreign aid

``Trump outlined his first budget proposal Monday, hiking military spending by $54 billion and slashing roughly the same amount from non-defense programs. Foreign aid, which accounts for roughly 1% of the federal budget, is expected to be high on the list of areas to cut... International charities and humanitarian agencies contacted by CNN say that the US policy shift could not have come at a worse time. There are currently more refugees in the world than at any time since World War II with around 65 million people displaced, according to the UNHCR, fleeing war and terrorism from several conflicts including Syria and Iraq.''