Tag: United States Agency for International Development
Were the U.S.A.I.D. Cuts ‘Efficient?’
When President Trump took office, U.S.A.I.D. was one of the first agencies to be dismantled in the name of efficiency. Amy Schoenfeld Walker,...
Pete Marocco, Who Helped Gut Foreign Aid for Trump, Leaves State...
Pete Marocco, who worked with Elon Musk’s team to oversee the gutting of foreign aid and the dismantling of the main U.S. aid...
Senators Denounce Trump Administration’s Response to Myanmar Quake
Democratic senators sent a letter to the Trump administration on Wednesday criticizing what they called the paltry U.S. aid response to the earthquake...
Trump’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar
China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam.The United States, the richest...
‘They Will Label Us as Spies’: The Afghan Students Abandoned by...
When she finds it hard to focus, Nilab jots down her worries on slips of paper and pins them to her wall, a...
Trump Administration Ends Global Health Research Program
An obscure but influential program that gave detailed public health information to about half of the world’s nations will fold as a result...
Trump Appointees Fire Hundreds at U.S.A.I.D. Working on Urgent Aid
Trump administration appointees running the main United States aid agency have in recent days fired hundreds of employees who help manage responses to...
Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains...
Funds for vital health programs around the world remain frozen and their work has not been able to resume, despite a federal judge’s...
Trump’s USAID Cuts Halt Agent Orange Victims Program in Vietnam
Nearly 40 years after she was born with a malformed spine and misshapen limbs — most likely because her father was exposed to...
With Aid Cutoff, Trump Severs a Lifeline for Millions
Funds from the world’s richest nation once flowed from the largest global aid agency to an intricate network of small, medium and large...
