What is the USAID budget? In fiscal year 2023, USAID managed more than $40 billion in appropriations, the Congressional Research Service said, a figure that is less than 1% of the federal budget. Most of that funding went to governance programs, followed by the humanitarian and health s...
The billionaire, who is heading up a review of the government as part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), said at the beginning of the year he had spoken with PresidentDonald Trump, who agreed thewhole agency should be closed. Around 83% of programmes run by USA...
What is USAID? Kennedy created USAID at the height of the United States’ Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union. He wanted a more efficient way to counter Soviet influence abroad through foreign assistance and saw the State Department as frustratingly bureaucratic at doing that. Congress passed ...
What is USAID? Kennedy created USAID at the height of the United States’ Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union. He wanted a more efficient way to counter Soviet influence abroad through foreign assistance and saw the State Department as frustratingly bureaucratic at doing that. Congre...
Agency for International Development is on the cusp of being shut down, according to the Trump administration's billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk –who said President Donald Trump has "agreed" to shutter the agency. Here’s what to know: What is USAID? What we know: ...
Senators on Capitol Hill are weighing in on Elon Musk’s moves at the US Agency for International Development, which provides aid to fund education and fight hunger overseas. 2 of 6 | The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, is pictured Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, ...
Volunteers Are Now Tracking What's Already Been Lost in the USAID Freeze More Manuel Balce Ceneta A street sign with names of U.S. government agencies housed at the Ronald Regan Building, including the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID headquarters...
Musk, who leads the newly established Department of Government Efficiency tasked with streamlining the federal bureaucracy and making budget cuts, posted on social media, “Yes, Mr. President!” in response to a Trump post claiming that money spent by USAID “is tot...
What is DOGE doing with USAID? Mr. Trump and Musk have also taken aim at the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, upending an organization that provides humanitarian aid to more than 100 countries. Both men contend that much of the 60-year-old agency's spending is waste...
President Trump has targeted Canada over fentanyl, despite less than 1% of fentanyl seizures occurring on the northern border; transgender people, who account for just over 1% of the U.S. population; and USAID funding, which accounts for less than 1% of the federal budget. ...