The press secretary's remarks came as the Trump administration was targeting USAID for cuts or dismantling. Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa repeated the claim on Feb. 13 during a U.S. Senate Committee ...

Musk insisted that USAID was too wasteful and corrupt to exist, but by effectively dismantling the agency, DOGE ended projects like the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fews Net), a long ...

Supporting USAID is placing America first. Foreign assistance, done well, benefits Americans and American interests here at home and abroad. USAID represents less than 1% of the entire federal ...

USAID has been under stress since Trump imposed a 90-day freeze on foreign aid worldwide. (Reuters) Sanyal’s comments come in the backdrop of the US department of government efficiency (DOGE ...

A U.S. foreign services worker said the aid freeze brought "stress and strain." A U.S. foreign service officer deployed overseas blamed President Donald Trump administration's "cruel and harmful ...

U.S. organizations do billions of dollars of business with USAID and the State Department, which oversee more than $60 billion in foreign assistance. More than 80% of companies that have contracts ...

Trump and Musk’s war against the agency should be opposed on principle. But we can’t overlook that USAID has been a destructive arm of American imperialism for decades. Senator Chris Van ...

Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? The effort to dismantle USAID tells us a lot about what programs Republicans tend to think of as “wasteful spending.” Abdallah Fayyad ...

Meanwhile, other affidavits from USAID staffers until recently based in Congo describe the gutting of their agency by President Donald Trump and Musk, which they said left them abandoned and in danger ...

The moves comes a day after the Trump administration moved to close the agency. The Trump administration is placing all direct-hire employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development ...

Washington — Nearly all staff for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, will be placed on leave Friday night, the agency announced on its website Tuesday night. Earlier in the ...

A State Department notice to USAID employees ‒ two-thirds of whom work overseas across 60 countries ‒ said all USAID "direct hire personnel" across the world will be placed on administrative ...