Indiatimes2d
When Melania, Ivanka used USAID funds for their pet projects: 'It's really touching'
Records now reveal that both Melania and Ivanka used thousands of dollars from USAID to fund their pet projects during the first term. USAID helped Melania Trump's Be Best program and Ivanka Trump ...
The Washington Post5d
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, which officials have said is intended to rein in wasteful spending, has left American workers in ...
Politico2d
How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE’s crosshairs
Was USAID trying to do an end-run? Pete Marocco participates in a roundtable during a morning session at Grand Hyatt Bogota on May 13, 2019 in Bogota, Colombia. | Gabriel Aponte/Getty Images In ...
CBS News3d
Judge blocks Trump administration from placing 2,200 USAID employees on leave
Washington — A federal judge on Friday prevented the Trump administration from placing 2,200 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, on administrative leave ...
Yahoo News7d
What is USAID?
Over the weekend, news broke that Elon Musk said the Trump administration would be shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, a decades-old independent government agency ...
Snopes.com5d
USAID paid $44K to Politico, not over $8M as White House claimed. It was for subscriptions
In early February 2025, a false rumor circulated online, claiming the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — a government agency targeted for cuts or dismantling in the early weeks ...
CBS News4d
USAID to put nearly all staff on leave Friday; overseas missions shuttering
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 ...
The Washington Post3d
Recall of USAID’s global workforce causes havoc and distress
In interviews, USAID staffers said Tuesday’s recall order has sent them racing to make temporary housing arrangements back in the United States, identify new day cares or schools for their ...
Business Insider4d
The USAID shutdown could make China more powerful. Beijing is already pouring billions into countries around the world.
The abrupt firing of most staff at the US Agency for International Development — a process the White House put into motion this week — is likely to benefit China on the world stage. "The ...
Fox News4d
How USAID went woke and destroyed itself
But take it from someone who worked at USAID for three years: Its fate was already sealed. USAID, the U.S. government’s vehicle to disburse tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded foreign ...
Fox News4d
Former USAID official Mark Moyar says ‘corruption’ at agency ‘subverted’ Trump White House
In President Donald Trump's first term in the White House, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was rife with "corrruption" as staffers were intent on "subverting the president's ...