Trump Administration to Lay Off Nearly All of U.S. Aid Agency’s Staff
Officials for the agency were notified of the planned cuts on the same day they learned that about 800 awards and contracts administered through U.S.A.I.D. were being canceled, three people said.
How Trump Gutted America’s $40 Billion Aid Agency in Two Weeks
The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development appears to be a test case for the new administration.
What is USAID? Explaining the US foreign aid agency and why Trump, Musk want to end it
President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. agency charged with delivering humanitarian assistance overseas.
USAID Is Being Gutted. What Happened When The UK ‘Vaporized’ Its Own Aid Agency?
The U.K. seized upon a public health crisis to dismantle its development agency. The U.S. is mobilizing around a manufactured political crisis to do the same now.
What does USAID do? What to know about the foreign aid agency that Elon Musk is trying to dismantle
Elon Musk tweeted that he "spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper." What might that mean for America's ability to deliver aid?
USAID website shut down as Musk kills humanitarian aid agency
As DOGE head Elon Musk works to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID's official website has gone dark.
Trump doubles USAID staff he’s keeping while calling for agency shutdown
But the administration at the same time has revised upward the number of USAID staff it plans to keep from 300 to 600 out of more than 10,000 previously, according to three people
Unions sue Trump administration over USAID agency cuts
The lawsuit is the first seeking to block the Trump administration's overhaul of the US Agency for International Development.
Donald Trump’s administration plans to retain fewer than 300 USAID staff
The Trump administration plans to retain only a few hundred employees from the US Agency for International Development’s staff of thousands, according to four people familiar with the matter. Agency leaders were briefed on the plans on Thursday after notifying staff this week that most of them would be placed on leave and ordered home from overseas postings within 30 days,
Thousands of USAID workers put on forced leave as Trump moves to kill aid agency
Thousands of American USAID workers were put on forced leave Friday as President Trump plows ahead with plans to effectively kill the nation’s main foreign aid agency. Fewer than 300 officials at the venerable agency’s Washington,
Trump demands US aid agency closure despite tumult
President Donald Trump on Friday called for USAID to be shut down, in an escalation of his unprecedented campaign to dismantle the massive government aid agency that has prompted confusion
U.S. Aid Agency’s Climate Programs Aimed to Curb Migration. Now They’re Gone.
Aid projects were designed to help Central Americans withstand extreme weather at home. Their end could undercut Trump’s goal ...
Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under a Trump plan to gut the foreign aid agency
Forced leaves have begun in Washington and worldwide for most employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development ...
Rubio’s years of strong support for USAID stand in contrast to his sudden criticism of the aid agency
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, newly in charge of the besieged US Agency for International Development, was for years a ...
USAID is on Trump and Musk's cost-cutting list. Here's where the foreign aid agency spends its money.
USAID cuts, led by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, may reduce aid to Ukraine, Jordan, and Ethiopia — but could reduce wasteful ...
'We're pawns in a game': US aid workers left in limbo overseas as agency slashed
USAID foreign staff say in addition to feeling stranded, they also worry how their absences will harm the countries and ...
Column: Trump and Musk crippled our most important global aid agency. The consequences are grim
The Trump administration's attack on the key foreign aid agency undermines U.S. influence, pleases autocrats in Russia and ...
End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say
“All the signals of how the senior staff have been put on administrative leave, many of the field staff and headquarters ...
New EPA administrator on California wildfire aid: ‘Nothing is holding us back’
While Gov. Gavin Newsom met with President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill on Wednesday in an effort to secure disaster relief funds, the new EPA Administrator had boots on the ground in Altadena on ...