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July 1 is the official end date for the agency that President Trump dismantled. We talk to four former top officials about ...
Most fired USAID workers were officially taken off the payroll this week. One employee grapples with the abrupt loss of a ...
Tessie San Martin talks about leading the Durham global research firm after losing half its revenue and why sustainable ...
According to the influential medical journal, The Lancet, President Trump’s decision to cut the majority of US funding for ...
Trump has repeatedly said he wants overseas spending to be closely aligned with his "America First" approach. Bush and Obama delivered their messages of condemnation in a video conference they hosted ...
Comprising less than 0.1% of the federal budget, USAID provides international humanitarian and development aid for poverty eradication, education, disease prevention, and medical programs. The Trump ...
In November 2014, USAID, MOFCOM, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, PRC National Health and Family Planning Commission, and U.S. CDC signed a MOU jointly supporting the establishment of the ...
Amna Nawaz: The Trump administration's cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, have reverberated around the world. The agency, which operated in over 100 nations and ...
Although it’s commonly assumed to be much higher, foreign aid is just 1% of federal spending, so cutting it won’t begin to balance the budget. So instead, Trump and Musk attacked USAID by ...
President Trump has made clear that he will put the needs of his country and its citizens first before attending to the needs of the world. No leader of a nation as great as the U.S. could do ...
House Republicans voted on Thursday to claw back billions of dollars in federal funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid, locking in the first set of slashes made by the Department of ...
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