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Aid efforts in Gaza slow as millions of promised USAID dollars do not arrive, agency officials say
Read full article: Aid efforts in Gaza slow as millions of promised USAID dollars do not arrive, agency officials sayOfficials from USAID say the the Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. humanitarian agency have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups.
White House fires USAID inspector general after warning about funding oversight, officials say
Read full article: White House fires USAID inspector general after warning about funding oversight, officials sayThe White House fired the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development on Tuesday.
How Rubio’s trip abroad was overshadowed by foreign policy at home, from USAID to Trump's Gaza plan
Read full article: How Rubio’s trip abroad was overshadowed by foreign policy at home, from USAID to Trump's Gaza planU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have hoped to spend his first trip abroad focused exclusively on issues close to his heart: immigration, counternarcotics and curbing Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere.
Trump’s foreign aid freeze could prove to be a boon for the world’s authoritarian strongmen
Read full article: Trump’s foreign aid freeze could prove to be a boon for the world’s authoritarian strongmenWhen President Donald Trump froze foreign assistance for 90 days, he argued that such a drastic step was needed to eliminate waste and block what he derides as “woke” spending that doesn’t align with American interests.
USAID website goes offline in Trump administration's 2-week-old freeze on foreign aid worldwide
Read full article: USAID website goes offline in Trump administration's 2-week-old freeze on foreign aid worldwideUSAID’s website has dropped offline without explanation in the Trump administration's two-week-old funding freeze of U.S. foreign aid and development funding.