As the Trump administration overhauls foreign aid, revelations about U.S. priorities abroad should serve as an enormous wake-up call.

(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File) Lane Pollack, center, of Rockville, Md., a senior learning advisor at USAID for 14 years ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the U.S. Agency ...

Elon Musk’s DOGE has ripped through huge swathes of the federal government, but no target has been hit like the U.S. Agency for International Development. On Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

12:30 a.m. Feb. 14 On Thursday night, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore USAID’s funding ...

USAID started in the 1960s as a way to offset the spread of communism. Since then, it has had various other soft-power ...

USAID worked in concert with other U.S. officials “to use our soft power to help counter these kinds of threats that are coming from countries like China,” Walter said. This work has always ...

Getty Images The continuing disaster status in Haiti and so many similar places is in ... The US provided $72 billion in aid to 180 countries in 2023, with USAID serving as its lead agency.

The agency also has thousands more suppliers and contractors who service USAID’s important work ... many children with disabilities from educational opportunities, especially in low-income ...