What is USAID? Explaining the US foreign aid agency and why Trump, Musk want to end it
What to Know Over the last two weeks, President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. agency charged with delivering humanitarian assistance overseas that has left aid organizations agonizing over whether they can continue with programs such as nutritional assistance for malnourished infants and children.
US foreign aid programs face major restructuring under Trump
New administration envisions new direction for 64-year-old US Agency for International Development — one more aligned with the ‘national interest’
USAID website goes offline in Trump administration's 2-week-old freeze on foreign aid worldwide
USAID’s website has dropped offline without explanation in the Trump administration's two-week-old funding freeze of U.S. foreign aid and development funding.
US foreign aid website goes offline in Trump administration’s freeze
Democrats say President Donald Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency.
What is USAID, the foreign assistance agency the Trump administration wants to shut down?
Learn more about what USAID is and how it works after Department of Government Efficiency leader Musk says he and Trump are hoping to shut down the federal agency.
What is USAID? Explaining the US foreign aid agency and why President Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to end it
President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. agency charged with delivering humanitarian assistance overseas that has left aid
What is USAID?
Marco Rubio is now the acting head of USAID, the lead international humanitarian and development arm of the U.S. government.
Funding freeze thrusts foreign aid groups into crisis
Development organizations that program and deliver billions of dollars in U.S. humanitarian aid warn they may have to shut ...
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USAID website goes offline amid Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid
Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act in 1961, and Kennedy signed that law and an executive order establishing USAID as an independent agency. USAID today is at the center of US challenges to ...
Lawmakers, legal experts warn shuttering USAID is unconstitutional
Lawmakers and legal experts are warning the Trump administration’s efforts to shutter the government’s foreign assistance ...
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America’s foreign aid pause puts lives at risk
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Bill would expand prohibitions on overseas abortion services
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Bowling Green, has been joined by nine of his GOP colleagues in introducing the American Values Act, ...
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What is USAID, and how central is it to US foreign policy?
Last week, hundreds of internal contractors working for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) were ...
Democrats Push Back After Musk Says Trump Agrees to Close USAID and Workers Are Kept Out
Democrats are pushing back against the Trump administration’s attempt to gut an agency that provides crucial aid overseas to ...