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The government is struggling to cut the amount of foreign aid it spends on hotel bills for asylum seekers in the UK, the BBC has learnt.

In February, the prime minister said he would cut the foreign aid budget to fund a boost in military spending.

The government has committed to increasing spending on the army and its estates, and announced it would cut the foreign aid budget to increase military spending to 2.5% of national income by 2027.

Musk's work with Doge, however, has come with considerable controversy, particularly after mass lay-offs across federal agencies and the elimination of most programmes run by USAID, the main US foreign aid organisation.

Agency for International Development, canceling thousands of government-funded foreign aid programs they considered wasteful.