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Trump’s rapid dismantling of USAID has left oversight of the humanitarian aid “largely nonoperational,” the agency's inspector general’s office said.
Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said a thorough review of spending from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is warranted, following ...
Bono claimed on Joe Rogan’s podcast that USAID cuts caused 300,000 deaths, prompting Elon Musk to fire back on X, calling him a “liar/idiot" and denying the attack.
Bono and Joe Rogan clashed over the humanitarian impact of DOGE’s cuts — specifically the planned gutting of USAID — during the U2 singer’s visit to the podcast Friday.. During the episode ...
Congressional leaders are expecting the White House to send them a package as soon as Tuesday that would claw back $9.4 billion in approved spending, most of it for foreign aid.
The Trump administration’s recent sweeping cuts have thrown the tradition of U.S. assistance into doubt. Without American help, Indigenous people in the Amazon are worried.
Potential shortcomings in USAID–State Department merger plan raise concerns The inspector general found that the new hiring numbers aren’t based on any workforce strategy, the ...
Last year, under the Biden administration, USAID awarded a five-year grant to support Indigenous LGBTQIA people through the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous People, an agency that ...
The House passed the rescissions package as Republicans in Congress decide to stand by Elon Musk and the Trump administration’s unlawful cuts to lifesaving foreign aid.
That's less than one-tenth of USAID's workforce in fiscal 2024, which had nearly 4,500 domestic direct-hire staff, 5,000 local staff, and more than 1,000 contractors.
Miguel Guimaraes Vasquez fought for years to protect his homeland in the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade, even laboring under death threats from drug traffickers.