1 day ago · The action added to the dozens of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) staff being removed from their positions, as President Donald Trump's team moves to abolish the agency's ...

23 hours ago · Meanwhile, billionaire Trump ally Musk on Sunday continued to slam the State Department and USAID in his posts and reposts on X. Trump has tasked Musk with leading a federal cost-cutting panel ...

22 hours ago · Former USAID officials cited by CNN disagreed with the Trump administration’s reported decision to move USAID’s work to the State Department, which is more focused on foreign relations than ...

1 day ago · “Live by executive order, die by executive order,” Musk tweeted in reference to USAID. Trump placed an unprecedented 90-day freeze on foreign assistance on his first day in office Jan. 20. The order, a tougher-than-expected interpretation of Trump’s freeze order on Jan. 24 drafted by Peter Marocco, a returning political appointee from ...

1 day ago · Congressional Democrats have battled the Trump administration increasingly openly, expressing concern that Trump may be headed toward ending USAID as an independent agency and absorbing it into ...

2 days ago · “Trump’s USAID purge and foreign aid pause is already hurting efforts to deliver aid and growing China’s world standing at our expense,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Friday.

1 day ago · Mr. Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the scope of American foreign aid, arguing that sending taxpayer dollars overseas runs counter to his America first agenda. ... “Eliminating USAID ...

1 day ago · The purge of USAID personnel and freezing of foreign assistance have caused tension between Trump officials and congressional staff members, who have clashed over the value of key projects and the ...

2 days ago · The dominoes fell really fast. On Monday, Jan. 20, shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order that called for a 90-day pause on new foreign-aid programs for ...

3 days ago · Already, Trump has frozen billions in foreign aid funding — hitting a vast number of USAID programs; put some 60 senior career USAID officials on leave and fired or furloughed hundreds of ...