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Duckworth, Durbin Join Kaine, Colleagues in Introducing Legislation to Expand Congressional Oversight of Foreign Assistance
WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations ...
What is USAID? Explaining the US foreign aid agency and why Trump and Musk want to end it
Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in ...
The Associated Press on MSN8d
USAID website goes offline amid Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid
The website of the US Agency for International Development went offline without explanation Saturday as thousands of ...
The Washington Post7d
What USAID does, and why Trump and Musk want to get rid of it
Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act and Kennedy set up USAID as an independent agency in 1961. USAID has outlived the Soviet Union, which fell in 1991. Today, supporters of USAID argue that ...
US foreign aid programs face major restructuring under Trump
New administration envisions new direction for 64-year-old US Agency for International Development — one more aligned with ...
The Independent5d
Marco Rubio tweet calling foreign aid 'critical' resurfaces as he talks about cutting USAID
Following the passage of the Foreign Assistance Act, the agency was established in 1961. Those backing the agency’s work today say it’s countering the influence of Russia and China ...
Al Jazeera on MSN7d
What is USAID, and how central is it to US foreign policy?
According to the US government’s official website, USAID is the “principal US agency to extend assistance to countries ...
Las Vegas Sun7d
What is USAID? Explaining the U.S. foreign aid agency and why Trump and Musk want to end it
Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act and Kennedy set up USAID as an independent agency in 1961. USAID has outlived the Soviet Union, which fell in 1991. Today, supporters of USAID argue that ...