The Trump administration is weighing a proposal to slash the State Department’s budget by $27 billion — nearly half — and ...

The White House is preparing a rescission package that will seek to have Congress claw back more than $9 billion in approved ...

Conservatives have long targeted public broadcasting for spending cuts, and foreign aid historically enjoys low support in ...

Republican lawmakers have been clamoring for a rescissions request, to give Congress a say in the Trump administration's ...

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a ...

White House budget director Russ Vought wants to claw back $1.1 billion appropriated for the Corporation for Public ...

Defenders of both USAID and Voice of America have decried killing key levers of global soft power that enhance U.S. national security overseas, allowing for China to fill the void.

the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and agencies President Trump has sought to eliminate. A White House official confirmed to The Hill that the package will be sent to Congress ...

and $8.3 billion from USAID. A memo drafted by White House budget director Russ Vought — and requested by GOP congressional leaders — accuses CPB of a “lengthy history of anti-conservative b ...

Similarly, in justifying the USAID cuts, the White House says the agency spent $900,000 building a greenhouse gas calculator, $500,000 to buy electric busses in Rwanda, $4 million for legume ...

The Hill noted that the White House cited “numerous examples of funding from the State Department and USAID to be cut that are not in line with Trump’s agenda. Among those are $500,000 for ...

Peter Marocco left his role as Director of the Office of Foreign Assistance, a position in which he oversaw severe cutbacks ...