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The demise of USAID: time to rethink foreign aid?
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is no more. Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, has announced that 83 ...
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Former chief economist talks on the end of USAID and what comes next
The abrupt dismantling of USAID damaged international relationships and caused preventable deaths. Former chief economist ...
Trump to order dismantling of the Education Department. But it's not closing entirely.
President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order Thursday afternoon that aims to eliminate the U.S. Department of ...
In the wake of USAID’s gutting, the agency gets controversial new leaders
USAID still exists, though it’s a shell of its former self. The agency is getting new leadership, though the team doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
Trump officials circulate plan to overhaul U.S. foreign assistance
Trump administration officials are proposing new plans to overhaul how America gives out foreign assistance in the wake of ...
Trump to Sign Order to Shut Down Department of Education, White House Says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will sign a long-anticipated executive order on Thursday that aims to shut ...
Opinion
‘We Will Pay in Lives’: The Devastating Cost of Dismantling USAID
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof explains the various ways the Trump administration's dismantling of USAID will hurt the U.S.
Appeals court blocks Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
A three-judge panel has ruled that Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional and ordered it ...
US isn’t first country to dismantle its foreign aid office − here’s what happened after the UK killed its version of USAID
British Conservatives cited cost-cutting to force the UK’s foreign aid office into a merger. Five years later, it hasn’t ...
The challenging but compelling political case for USAID
Rarely if ever does a newspaper headline include the words “crisis averted,” yet, that is what investments in development ...
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USAID Funding Saved Millions of Children’s Lives. Recent Cuts Put It in Jeopardy
USAID investments significantly reduced deaths among children under age five and women of reproductive age, studies show ...
Elon Musk and DOGE efforts to close USAID likely unconstitutional, agency must be restored, judge rules
The federal judge ordered the government to reinstate U.S. Agency for International Development systems, saying DOGE likely violated the constitution in multiple ways.