The New York Times5d
Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Has Created Chaos. Here Is What to Know.
A map showing countries that have been affected by President Trump’s decision to halt foreign aid. Patients were told to leave a U.S.-funded refugee hospital. Most of the soup kitchens that feed ...
ABC News5d
Nonprofits, NGOs scramble to provide global aid amid USAID uncertainty
Organizations described being locked out of systems and unable to access funds. Despite verbal assurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio about allowing lifesaving humanitarian aid to continue ...
Wall Street Journal4d
How Much the U.S. Spent on Foreign Aid—and Where It Went
The U.S. was the world’s largest funder of foreign aid for decades—propping up education, health services and human rights in developing countries and supporting the militaries of strategic ...
CNN6d
The US State Department says humanitarian assistance can continue. Foreign aid workers say that’s not happening
US-funded aid work around the world has been largely brought to a standstill, multiple sources tell CNN, despite Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s claims that the United States continues to ...
The New York Times4d
Trump Says He May Cut Aid to Jordan and Egypt if They Don’t Take Gazans
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Shawn McCreesh Reporting from Washington President Trump said on Monday that he could cut aid to Jordan and Egypt if they refused his demand to permanently take in most ...
CNN3d
No doctors for sick children. This is the reality of Trump’s aid freeze in remote northern Thailand
Plastic tubes meander from Rosella’s nose to a nearby oxygen tank that’s bigger than she is, as she flicks through a book of her drawings: a flower, a house, a chicken. The 9-year-old needs ...
The Hill4d
Trump’s tariffs wars and aid shutdowns are foolish and immoral
About 95 years ago, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act aimed to protect American industries by imposing record tariffs on imported goods. Despite warnings from economists, President Herbert Hoover plowed ...
Reuters4d
Watchdog warns Trump's gutting of USAID leaves $8.2 billion unspent aid with no oversight
Hundreds of USAID programs covering billions of dollars of assistance across the globe came to a halt after Trump on January 20 ordered a freeze on most U.S. foreign aid, saying he wanted to ...
New York Post3d
Palestinian Authority signals it will drop ‘pay-for-slay’ program that rewards terrorists to attack Israelis — only if US restores aid
Senior sources in Ramallah said that in exchange for this concession, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is asking that the United States repeal the Taylor Force Act, which cuts financial aid to the ...
The Denver Post4d
Billions in unspent aid lacks oversight after Trump targets USAID, watchdog warns
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Agency for International Development has lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid following the Trump administration’s foreign ...
CNN6d
Trump freezes aid to South Africa over controversial land law, claiming discrimination against White farmers
Trump said in the order the United States would no longer support South Africa with foreign aid if such policies, which he claims highlight a “shocking disregard for its citizens” and amount ...