What is USAID? Explaining the US foreign aid agency and why Trump, Musk want to end it
President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. agency charged with delivering humanitarian assistance overseas.
USAID is on Trump and Musk's cost-cutting list. Here's where the foreign aid agency spends its money.
USAID cuts, led by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, may reduce aid to Ukraine, Jordan, and Ethiopia — but could cut wasteful spending, Republicans argue.
Trump’s foreign aid freeze a ‘death sentence’ for many humanitarian groups
Most humanitarian agencies operate just ahead of insolvency in the best of times, Nate Radomski, the executive director of American Jesuits International, says.
How Christian Groups Are Responding to Trump’s Foreign-Aid Freeze
Since the inauguration, the incoming Administration has imposed spending freezes and stop-work orders on a wide swath of American foreign-aid enterprises. Funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)—which,
What Is USAID, the Foreign Aid Agency Trump Is Targeting?
President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk have launched a full-frontal assault on the United States Agency for International Development. Pending a review, he’s ordered a pause to all US foreign aid — with some exceptions — and Musk has threatened to shut down the independent government agency entirely,
Elon Musk targets closure of US humanitarian aid agency
The Trump administration said it would lock U.S. Agency for International Development workers out of their headquarters in downtown Washington DC for a second day on Tuesday as it moved to shutter the agency,
Former USAID chief blasts Trump and Musk's gutting of agency
Nearly all staff for the U.S. Agency for International Development, also known as USAID, will be placed on leave Friday amid President Trump and Elon Musk's plans to restructure the federal government.
How the US foreign aid freeze is intensifying humanitarian crises across the globe
Food distribution is being stopped. Health services are being shut down. Lifesaving aid is being tied up, with no way to ...
The Truth About U.S. Foreign Aid: A Response To Secretary Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio’s foreign aid freeze and review asks if it makes America safer, stronger, and more prosperous. The evidence shows ...
Pauses on US foreign aid and other grants send funders and nonprofits scrambling
The Trump administration has made or initiated major policy changes that impact nonprofits and their missions in its first ...
US foreign aid freeze is upending global aid and the work of contractors
The extent of the impacts of the Trump administration’s sudden 90-day freeze of almost all foreign aid is still unclear ...
The US Halt In Foreign Aid ‘Could Mean Life Or Death For Millions’
People who are experiencing urgent humanitarian crises, and who rely on aid for food, water and healthcare, could feel U.S.
US aid agency is in upheaval during foreign assistance freeze and staff departures
Trump administration changes have upended the U.S. agency charged with providing humanitarian aid overseas, with senior ...
US issues new waiver for humanitarian aid amid freeze
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a waiver on Tuesday for life-saving humanitarian assistance during a 90-day pause ...