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The USAID Freeze: A View From Sri Lanka and the Global South
Donald Trump’s gutting of the American aid agency has adversely impacted humanitarian work in countries like Sri Lanka – ...
Official who oversaw shrinking of USAID departs State Department
Peter Marocco left his role as Director of the Office of Foreign Assistance, a position in which he oversaw severe cutbacks ...
The Express Tribune3d
Trump official behind USAID shutdown leaves State Department
Pete Marocco, a top Trump administration official who spearheaded the dismantling of the US Agency for International ...
Catholic Standard6d
CRS advocates ‘Catholic, pro-life vision’ for foreign aid amid USAID shutdown
WASHINGTON (OSV News) – As the Trump administration moved to formally dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development, ...
Devex3d
Devex Pro Insider: Is the USAID-State merger a collision? And not even Wilson is safe from Trump’s ax
Experts weigh in on the USAID and State Department merger; staff at the Wilson Center placed on leave as the Trump ...
America’s farmers voted for Trump in big numbers. But now they feel the pain of his shutdown of USAID — which buys $2 billion/year of products from them. Where d…
During the 2024 presidential election, farming-dependent counties overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump. Almost 78% endorsed ...
WVTM Channel 136d
'Woke USAID': Sen. Tuberville introduces bill to repurpose funding to help veterans
Ala., introduced a bill in the Senate on Thursday that will repurpose the U.S. Agency for International Development funding ...
pharmaphorum5d
USAID site offline as Musk says it should be shut down
The organisation's website was offline over the weekend and at the time of writing, and there are rumours USAID will be shut down altogether and merged into the US State Department. There was a ...
Tracking Trump’s war on elite universities: Which schools have lost funding and what they're doing about it.
Harvard lost more than $2 billion in federal grants by refusing to comply with the president's demands. These other ...
Senate Democrats’ succession talk
The fierce post-election debate raging inside Democratic circles over whether the party's leadership needs a generational change is set to turbocharge if Sen. Dick Durbin retires.