People who are experiencing urgent humanitarian crises, and who rely on aid for food, water and healthcare, could feel U.S. cuts immediately, experts warn.
A message to USAID staff, obtained by NPR, says it will analyze "actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President's Executive Order" freezing most foreign aid.
The United States Agency for International Development has lifted its pause on all communications with the public, except for those that relate to four executive orders that U.S. President ...
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is not, in the scheme of things, a big part of the federal government. It dispersed $43.8 billion in the last fiscal year. That adds up to just 0.7 percent of the $6.
Just after 6 p.m. EST on Monday, the Trump administration placed a number of senior career officials at the U.S. Agency for International ... "The United States foreign aid industry and ...
President Donald Trump said his administration blocked $50 million for condoms to be sent to Gaza through its pause on foreign aid. But it has provided no evidence that $50 million was ever directed toward condoms for Gaza.
Legal experts predict that the new administration is likely to lose its fight, which stems from an Office of Management and Budget memo Monday announcing a freeze on federal grants and loans, including funds for clean drinking water, scientific research and tribal governments.
A separate U.S. program that provides contraceptives internationally spent $60 million worldwide in one year, but Gaza was not among the recipients.
Executive orders and announcements by President Trump have put billions of dollars in U.S. climate commitments into question.
The U.S. government gives other nations US$68 billion of foreign assistance annually—more than any other country. Over half of this sum is managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, including funds for programs aimed at fighting hunger and disease outbreaks,
The Senate Budget Committee voted on Thursday to advance Russell Vought, Trump's pick to lead the OMB, for a floor vote.
President Donald Trump said this week that he stopped the United States from sending $50 million “to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.” The claims made by Trump and his new press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, were met with an uproar from social media.