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Why Donald Trump’s decision to slash USAID is hurting American soft power and making the world less safe
With a single stroke of President Trump’s Sharpie pen, this has struck out US$60 billion (£39 billion) of US aid assistance, ...
Why USAID is such a critical piece of the global climate aid puzzle – and what happens next as it is cut
As development projects battle over which is the most ‘life-saving’ in order to secure the dregs of US aid funding, climate ...
USAID reverses course and restores some humanitarian aid contracts after WFP warning of possible deadly consequences
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) reversed course Tuesday and restored several of the World Food ...
The Republic6dOpinion
Column: USAID is not just an institution, it’s an idea
The news coming out of the White House ranges from the dangerous (a dictator-friendly Director of the National Intelligence ...
R.I.’s Edesia Nutrition tries to ‘find a way’ as Trump dismantles USAID
On the R.I. Report podcast, Edesia CEO Navyn Salem says the need to feed starving children remains acute amid a “roller ...
Trump’s USAID cuts cripple American response to Myanmar earthquake
As Myanmar reels from a devastating 7. 7-magnitude earthquake killing thousands, Trump's dismantling of USAID has left ...
Devex4d
Devex Pro Insider: USAID workers get RIF’ed off, and are philanthropists funding projects ‘to death’?
The Trump administration is planning to send RIFs to all remaining USAID staff in the coming months; WEF founder Klaus Schwab ...
U.S. Slashes Many of the Aid Programs It Had Promised to Keep
But in the past several days, the Trump administration has slashed many of the programs it had pledged to preserve, according ...
Opinion
The Buffalo News5dOpinion
Viewpoints: I worked for USAID for 16 years. I saw the profound difference it made
This month marked the end of my 16-year career with the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance. Like thousands of other federal workers, I was dismissed without ...
In the race to save lives after the Myanmar quake, US rescuers are notable by their absence
The American government dwarfs other nations' rescue capacity in experience, capacity and heavy machinery able to pull people ...
Government Executive2d
Project 2025 wanted to hobble the federal workforce. DOGE has hastily done that, and more
The controversial policy blueprint sought to cut back on civil servants’ powers, but the Trump administration’s turbulent ...