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

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

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

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 ...

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

An internal White House memo proposes cutting the budgets of the State Department and U.S. Agency for International ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is complaining about fellow billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency’s ...

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

USAID freezes on funding put federal contracts ... hoping the catchy term and “America First” branding would push the White House and Congress to back their cause. “This is the legacy ...

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 ...