How Trump’s Foreign-Aid Freeze Is ‘Shaking the Whole System’
J ames Akot has three goats. He shares them with his wife, his mother, three younger siblings, and two of his cousin's children, in a household in Northern Bahr el Ghazal in South Sudan. The crops Akot's family planted were washed away in the floods last year, the fourth and worst flood in the region in four consecutive years.
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 disburse it. These aren’t warnings of what’s to come, but examples of what aid workers say is the fallout of the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid and the gutting of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Head of NGO coalition says U.S. foreign aid freeze has been "devastating"
InterAction CEO Tom Hart sits down with Margaret Brennan to discuss the impact of the pause on foreign assistance. InterAction is a coalition of about 170 NGOs.
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,
Trump’s freeze on HIV/Aids foreign aid is troubling news for the US — here’s why
Does America stand to lose anything if Pepfar disappears? What lies ahead for the US Agency for International Development? Are Trump’s executive orders even legal? Daily Maverick tackles key questions about the 90-day pause on US foreign aid.
In freezing foreign aid, the US leaves people to die – and allows China to come to the rescue
One of the executive orders US President Donald Trump signed the day he was inaugurated was a 90-day pause in US foreign development assistance. The US Agency for International Development, USAID, was ordered to halt funding.
Dismantling of USAID leaves no staff to process aid waivers, sources say
The dismantling of USAID by the Trump administration means there are no staff to process waivers submitted by food and other ...
U.S.A.I.D. Turmoil Threatens Key Aid Supplies to Gaza, Officials Say
Washington has funded roughly a third of the aid sent to the enclave since the war began. With most agency workers set to be ...
Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under a Trump plan to gut the foreign aid agency
Forced leaves pulling all but a fraction of staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development off the job around the ...
USDA says much of Food for Progress aid program can resume, email shows
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday said the Food for Progress aid program could resume for agreements made in ...
Trump Administration to Lay Off Nearly All of U.S. Aid Agency’s Staff
Officials for the agency were notified of the planned cuts on the same day they learned that about 800 awards and contracts ...
Sudan's civil war is starving thousands of children. Aid workers say Trump's aid freeze could cost more lives.
Sudan's civil war is starving millions of civilians, who rely largely on foreign aid that has come from the U.S. more than ...
U.S. hiring cools in January; outlook for California dimmed by looming cuts in government and aid
U.S. job growth slowed at the start of the year, the government said, as employers held back on hiring amid increased ...
Rubio’s years of strong support for USAID stand in contrast to his sudden criticism of the aid agency
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, newly in charge of the besieged US Agency for International Development, was for years a ...