The Trump administration's decision to eliminate the entire international workforce of USAID, cutting lifesaving aid in the Global South, is a devastating blow to millions in need. How can we stand by ...

Trump’s sharp cuts to humanitarian aid will ensure that the United States’ soft power crumbles, doing lasting damage to its international standing.

In back-handed testimonials to USAID’s success, the world’s autocrats celebrated the agency’s demise, particularly the end of the $1.6 billion — about 4% of its annual budget — that it ...

A majority of USAID’s 10,000 employees are posted overseas. Workers who were terminated while working abroad were told they’d get shipping labels to return equipment but never got them, The ...

The Trump administration has fired 1,600 personnel of the USAID, an agency that helped deliver aid to many countries worldwide as part of the Elon Musk-led DOGE's efforts to downsize the federal ...

And today, agency officials learning that virtually the entire USAID workforce will be placed on administrative leave, receiving in an email a notification that as of midnight tonight, ...

In notices sent Sunday, the Trump administration said it will eliminate 1,600 jobs at the U.S. Agency for International Development and place all but a small number of remaining employees on leave ...

There are plenty of reasons why the Trump administration — and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — might be so fixated on USAID specifically.

“The programs that USAID and the State Department have spent money on are indefensible,” said Mast, highlighting spending on, among other things, $22 million to support the tourism industry in ...

Furthermore, numerous programmes conducted by NGOs with USAID funding collaborate with the industry in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Central America, among other locations. These programmes deliver training ...

With those funds, the agency provided assistance to approximately 130 countries. The analysis from CRS also found USAID's workforce totals more than 10,000 people, with approximately two-thirds ...

Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration is ultimately looking to slash the USAID workforce from thousands of employees to less than 300. The State Department ...