The program in question was proposed by Bill Clinton and first funded under G. W. Bush in 2001.

The money to improve World Cultural Sites has also included a number of Christian churches and has been expended on the restoration of more than one Torah. Some sites receiving funds have been at one time or another both Churches and Mosques. Depending on various turns of events the uses of the buildings has changed. Their importance to world history has not.

I have no problem with the US spending what has so far totaled less than $30,000,000 over the last eleven years.

I would be inclined to ask why this is suddenly of such concern?