USAID is going away. Here’s what it’s been doing in South America
The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian ...
From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rainforest, USAID has big impact across the globe
The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism ...
Newsday6d
USAID is going away, and along with it cocaine-fighting efforts and Amazon rainforest protection
Even if some foreign aid resumes after the 90-day suspension ordered by President Donald Trump, many USAID ... to pass fish from the boat used to catch, left, to the motorized one, right, used ...
Politico3d
How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE’s crosshairs
in 2024 (bottom left); a mother consults with a nurse during a checkup at a USAID-funded health center in 2011, in Farza, Afghanistan (bottom right). | Jemal Countess/Getty Images; John Moore ...
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As USAID is dismantled, right-wing media rejoice and spread baseless conspiracy theories about the agency’s work
USAID is the latest government agency in the crosshairs of Trump’s effort to gut the federal government Right-wing media and online figures have described USAID as a “slush fund” or “money ...
Fox News3d
I am a USAID whistleblower. I've got to admit, Musk is mostly right about agency's waste
But I’m not; I’m a whistleblower who worked at USAID for eight years, and Musk is (mostly) right about USAID’s dysfunction. As USAID’s fate to be shrunk and subsumed into the State ...
NBC News4d
USAID to be reduced to about 290 foreign service officers and civil servants
Thousands of USAID employees learned they would be placed on administrative leave starting at 11:59 p.m. Friday through a message posted on USAID.gov this week. USAID personnel overseas were ...
Photos show crew removing USAID signage amid the agency's uncertain future
A crew took letters off the USAID headquarters hours after President Trump called to "CLOSE IT DOWN." ...
NBC News6d
USAID announces nearly all direct hires will be placed on administrative leave
The U.S. Agency for International Development announced Tuesday night that almost all direct hires around the world will be placed on administrative leave this week. The move was announced on the ...
Christianity Today4d
USAID Freeze Leaves Ukrainians Out in the Cold
Elon Musk, who leads the new Department of Government Efficiency, has framed the freeze on USAID as a battle against corruption. And there’s no question there is corruption.
Indiatimes2d
When Melania, Ivanka used USAID funds for their pet projects: 'It's really touching'
and see that they're educating them in the right way," Melania had said at that time. As Donald Trump is now gutting USAID, old records of how his wife Melania Trump and daughter Ivanka Trump ...
MSNBC6d
Elon Musk calls USAID ‘a criminal organization.’ Here’s the truth.
Then, the purge started. Dozens of USAID’s top leaders were placed on immediate leave. Hundreds of support staff were let go, and those remaining were told not only to stop funding development ...