3 days ago · US News: Explore the connections between USAID, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the context of COVID-19 origins and global health initiatives.

1 day ago · "USAID is one of the worst offenders of waste in Washington," Senate DOGE Caucus chair Joni Ernst said. Primary Menu Sections. ... over $1 million to fund research in the Wuhan lab, $20 million to ...

3 days ago · USAID is the primary federal agency providing foreign aid to countries around the world, and has been under siege by the Trump administration in recent days amid rumors Trump wants to move it ...

3 days ago · Musk’s claim referenced reports that USAID, a government agency ostensibly providing foreign aid, allocated substantial funds to EcoHealth Alliance, which then directed money to the Wuhan lab for gain-of-function research—experiments aimed at enhancing the transmissibility and virulence of coronaviruses.

1 day ago · USAID handed out more than 6,000 contracts in FY2024. The largest was a $6 billion grant to development firm Chemonics International to work on combating HIV/AIDS. It also received $2.5 billion ...

1 day ago · Hannah Cox, co-founder of BASEDPolitics, defends the shuttering of USAID. #usaid #trump Rising USAID inadvertently funded gain-of-function in Wuhan lab: Interview

3 days ago · What’s going on with USAID? On his first day in office Jan. 20, Trump implemented a 90-day freeze on foreign assistance. Four days later, Peter Marocco — a returning political appointee from Trump’s first term — drafted a tougher than expected interpretation of that order, a move that shut down thousands of programs around the world and forced furloughs and layoffs.

3 days ago · The agency’s funding accounts for a tiny portion of the federal budget, but its structure may have made it an easy target for Trump-era cost-cutting. By Noah Weiland and Stephanie Nolen The ...