USAID Controversy Live Updates: Judge Blocks Trump From Putting 2,200 Staff On Leave
5:30 p.m. EST, Feb. 7 Judge Carl Nichols prevented Trump from placing 2,200 USAID staff on leave while a lawsuit from labor ...
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How Trump's USAID shutdown threatens the world's climate goals
On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order pausing all USAID funding, and the agency subsequently ... for its past climate spending. The agency's inspector general released ...
The White House’s wildly inaccurate claims about USAID spending
Eleven out of 12 claims about the agency’s work are misleading, wrong or lack context.
How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE’s crosshairs
In Washington, many conservatives are cheering the Musk-led DOGE’s gutting of USAID as an example of how it is possible to ...
Gutting USAID Will Have a Monumental Effect on Combating Climate Change
The agency was a key player in renewable energy and disaster protection around the world—until Elon Musk showed up.
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Devex Newswire: USAID purge reaches new level — and around the world
The widespread purge of USAID staff now includes foreign service officers and their families serving overseas. Plus, UNFPA in ...
The world needs USAID
I was head of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1999 to 2001. Before that, I lived and worked in East Africa ...
Sen. Joni Ernst warns of ‘willful sabotage’ at USAID, cites millions in funding for Wuhan lab, terrorists and more
The embattled US Agency for International Development has engaged in “willful sabotage of congressional oversight” over ...
'Viper's nest': USAID accused of corruption, mismanagement long before Trump admin took aim
The U.S. Agency for International Development is facing a reckoning under the second Trump administration following years of ...
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As USAID Faces Shutdown, Links to Terrorists and Warnings Ignored May Have Sealed its Doom
USAID's links to terror groups including Hamas -- and a failure to heed warnings about these links -- may have sealed its ...
Why shutting down USAID could have major impacts on Gaza aid, organizations warn
The Trump administration's efforts to shut down USAID could impact humanitarian efforts in Gaza and abroad, international aid ...
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Fact check: The White House’s wildly inaccurate claims about USAID spending
The news release then listed 12 examples, plucked from the websites of right-wing media. But the numbers cited – as low as ...