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Inside the demise of USAID—and what comes next

In this Q&A, author Nicholas Enrich describes the last days of USAID, what’s at stake when the US retreats, and what the ...

Shutting Down USAID Led to a Rise in Global Violence, Study Says

Kennedy signed the executive order creating the body, which he described as an opportunity to show that “economic growth and political democracy can develop hand in hand.” It was in 2025 that ...

USAID’s closure led to ‘entirely preventable’ deaths, latest Ebola outbreak: House Dem report

The Trump administration’s decision to kill the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) likely contributed to ...
Opinion

USAID Shuttered A Year Ago. Will Trump’s Trade Over Aid Replacement Actually Work?

USAID is gone. With 14 million deaths projected by 2030, can Trump's "Trade Over Aid" initiative replace decades of global health infrastructure?

‘Evil’ Elon Musk at the Center of a Heated USAID Debate

Elon Musk’s destruction of USAID caused suffering or death to “hundreds of thousands” of people — many of whom were children, ...
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As USAID comes to an end, study finds cuts could lead to 14 million additional deaths

The State Department is taking over programs previously run by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in a move officials say will restructure U.S. foreign assistance and reorient it ...
Wired

USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew

When billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) swept through government in the first months of 2025, there was one agency that felt the full force of the group’s ...
UPI

USAID workers mourn agency's demise

WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) --For decades, workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development were among the quiet architects of American diplomacy, bringing food, medicine and governance reform ...
Forbes

After USAID And WHO: Global Health Without The U.S.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Founder & Chair of Praava Health, a leading emerging market company Yesterday’s confirmation that the United States has formally ...
Politico

How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE’s crosshairs

It was Thursday, Jan. 23, and the Trump administration official had discovered that the U.S. Agency for International Development recently made $153 million in payments for a range of expenses.
Associated Press

USAID is all but gone. For one family, 3 generations of service were defined by it

WASHINGTON (AP) — He was special, Albert Votaw’s daughter remembers all these decades later. Cathy Votaw is 70 now, more than a dozen years older than her father lived to be. She describes a man with ...
Los Angeles Times

Trump cut Nigeria’s aid back in March. Now he wonders why it’s so violent

On Truth Social earlier this month President Trump ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “prepare for possible action” to protect Christians in Nigeria. (Hegseth’s social-mediated response: “Yes ...