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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 Broadcasting (CPB).
The full rescission package is expected to be formally presented to Congress when it returns from its Easter recess on April 28.
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of a group of more than two dozen unnamed former and current USAID employees and contractors.
Peter Marocco left his role as Director of the Office of Foreign Assistance, a position in which he oversaw severe cutbacks ...
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 ...
Defenders of both USAID and Voice of America have decried killing key levers of global soft power that enhance U.S. national ...
The memo states that the “default position” is that all staff are reporting to work — except those who have been requested ...