17 hours ago · Former USAID officials cited by CNN disagreed with the Trump administration’s reported decision to move USAID’s work to the State Department, which is more focused on foreign relations than ...

1 day ago · Congressional Democrats have battled the Trump administration increasingly openly, expressing concern that Trump may be headed toward ending USAID as an independent agency and absorbing it into ...

18 hours ago · Meanwhile, billionaire Trump ally Musk on Sunday continued to slam the State Department and USAID in his posts and reposts on X. Trump has tasked Musk with leading a federal cost-cutting panel ...

1 day ago · “Trump’s USAID purge and foreign aid pause is already hurting efforts to deliver aid and growing China’s world standing at our expense,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Friday.

2 days ago · The Trump administration is moving to bring USAID under State Department control, sources say; The National Security Council hosted discussions this week on the topic, source says

1 day ago · Congressional Democrats battled the Trump administration increasingly openly, expressing concern that Trump may be headed toward ending USAID as an independent agency and absorbing it into the State Department. Democrats say Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency, and that the work of USAID is ...

19 hours ago · Trump has made Musk’s DOGE responsible for cutting what both men say is wasteful US government spending. Musk fired off a series of criticisms of USAID on X on Sunday, calling it “a criminal ...

2 days ago · The dominoes fell really fast. On Monday, Jan. 20, shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order that called for a 90-day pause on new foreign-aid programs for ...

2 days ago · Already, Trump has frozen billions in foreign aid funding — hitting a vast number of USAID programs; put some 60 senior career USAID officials on leave and fired or furloughed hundreds of ...

1 day ago · Mr. Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the scope of American foreign aid, arguing that sending taxpayer dollars overseas runs counter to his America first agenda. ... “Eliminating USAID ...