1 day ago · USAID handed out more than 6,000 contracts in FY2024. The largest was a $6 billion grant to development firm Chemonics International to work on combating HIV/AIDS. It also received $2.5 billion ...

3 days ago · Why is Elon Musk going after USAID? Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, has launched a sweeping effort empowered by Trump to fire government workers and cut trillions in government spending. USAID is one of his prime targets. Musk alleges USAID funding been used to launch deadly programs and called it a “criminal ...

4 days ago · Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Monday that he and President Donald Trump were in the process of shutting down the USAID, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy.

5 days ago · Elon Musk said President Donald Trump agreed the US Agency for International Development needs to be “shut down,” following days of speculation over the future of the agency after its funding ...

3 days ago · "Not a single person in the Executive Branch – not Donald Trump, not Elon Musk, and not any of their cronies – has the authority to shut down USAID. Congress created the agency by statute ...

4 days ago · Under the Trump administration, the U.S. agency that funds aid projects has faced layoffs, a stop action order for most aid efforts and a disruption of its website. Now Elon Musk says it should 'die.'

3 days ago · Inside Elon Musk’s Killing of USAID Saboteurs, tears, and a last-minute push to save lives. By Jonathan Guyer, a journalist and program director at Institute for Global Affairs.

4 days ago · Musk announced the planned closure of the foreign assistance agency early Monday morning on social media.

2 days ago · Foreign Strongmen Cheer as Musk Dismantles U.S. Aid Agency. Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcomed the Trump administration’s assault on U.S.A.I.D., which many authoritarians have ...

4 days ago · Elon Musk arrives for the inauguration ceremony of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the U.S. at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. ... USAID staffers say they believe that ...