USAID, Trump and Department for International Development

USAID official warns of unnecessary deaths from Trump's foreign aid block, then says he's been put on leave
The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), which gets much of its funding from the United States, is closing its southern African bureau, Bloomberg News said on Monday.
Trump administration says it’s cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts
The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judge’s order giving the Trump administration a midnight deadline to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.
USAID official warns of toll Trump's foreign aid cuts will have
Former United States Agency for International Development (USAID) employees terminated after the Trump administration dismantled the agency collect their personal belongings at the USAID headquarters on Feb.
USAID workers say goodbye to headquarters as Trump drastically cuts foreign aid
U.S. Agency for International Development workers were allowed to briefly reenter the headquarters in Washington on Thursday to collect their personal belongings and clear out their desks, a day after President Donald Trump's administration said it was cutting more than 90% of the agency's aid contracts.
Senior Official Put on Leave After Warning Trump’s Move Will Unleash Death ‘On a Massive Scale’
A senior official at the U.S. Agency for International Development told staff he was placed on leave less than half an hour after warning them that the Trump administration’s shutdown of the agency will lead to death “on a massive scale.
Senior USAID official put on leave after memo contradicting Rubio on aid
A top U.S. International Agency for Development (USAID) official has been put on leave after he released a memo that slammed the Trump administration’s moves to cut aid and said they will cause “preventable death.
Reporter obtains 'alarming' third memo from USAID official put on leave for revealing foreign aid cuts
An executive at USAID, the foreign aid agency in the process of being dismantled, was placed on administrative leave after sending memos criticizing the Trump administration’s cuts, Sam Stein writes Monday at the Bulwark.
U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid
The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an ...
Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order for Trump admin to pay $2 billion in foreign aid by midnight
Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a court-imposed midnight deadline that would have required the Trump ...
Judge orders Trump administration to pay bills from foreign aid contractors, comply with earlier ruling
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali issued a temporary restraining order on Feb. 13 that ordered the State Department and USAID to ...
Chief Justice Allows U.S. to Continue Freeze on Foreign Aid Payments
Lawyers for the government had said it would miss a deadline to release more than $1.5 billion in payments for past aid work ...
U.S. Foreign-Aid Halt Is Making Scrutiny of China Even Harder
A funding freeze is rocking nonprofits that collected increasingly scarce information in a country that Trump has deemed a ...
Chief Justice John Roberts pauses judge’s order for Trump admin to pay foreign aid contractors by midnight
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts has paused a federal judge’s order that required the Trump administration to pay out ...
Foreign aid groups ask US Supreme Court to require Trump to release funds
Foreign aid organizations asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to require President Donald Trump's administration to ...
USAID scrutiny highlights the good, bad of foreign spending
President Donald Trump’s near-abolishment of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has sparked debate over ...