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The Trump Administration's plan to shut down USAID, which houses the Food for Peace program, should be rejected. Food for Peace, started by President Eisenhower, is vital in fighting global hunger ...

Until recently, USAID provided about a quarter of the international donor funding for tuberculosis services in other countries — up to $250 million annually, according to the WHO. The agency ...

The Trump administration's cuts to USAID have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups, leaving them paying out of pocket to preserve a fragile ceasefire ...

Opponents of President Donald Trump’s USAID spending freeze will take cheer from the Supreme Court’s refusal to intervene this week. But there is less cause for celebration than they claim.

The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups, leaving them paying out of pocket to preserve the fragile Gaza ...

Then came USAID’s own reckoning. In August 2024, an Inspector General’s report confirmed what critics long suspected — systemic due diligence failures had left billions in taxpayer ...