Sorting Out the Facts on ‘Waste and Abuse’ at USAID
As President Donald Trump's administration targets the U.S. Agency for International Development for closure or major ...
Inside USAID’s undoing
As Marocco and his DOGE entourage dug through USAID’s books, the foreign aid freeze’s effect was reverberating across the ...
Panicked USAID Workers Grapple with Defunding of Humanitarian Efforts: 'People Will Starve, Babies Will Die' (Exclusive)
Abandoned, without a job and with an uncertain return home — that’s the scenario for a multitude of overseas staff doing the ...
Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts
The posts raise questions about funding for certain projects and organizations, often claiming without evidence that the ...
Claims about Politico, ‘DEI musical’ and USAID spending distort the facts
Elon Musk and Republicans in support of his DOGE efforts have repeatedly made false claims about government spending.
Trump is gutting an agency that his daughter once championed
President Donald Trump is eagerly dismantling an agency that was once championed by his daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka ...
How USAID freeze could be the most catastrophic for women and girls
In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, where USAID oversees services including HIV prevention and treatment, girls and women ...
Judge bars Trump from putting 2,700 additional USAID workers on leave
The judge temporarily barred USAID from putting 2,200 workers on paid leave after employee groups filed a lawsuit challenging ...
BREAKING: Federal Judge pauses Trump’s plan to put most USAID staffers on forced leave
Brendan Ballou, Former Federal Prosecutor, Karoun Demirjian New York Times Congressional Reporter, and Andrew Weissmann, ...
Trump’s 3rd week saw more executive orders, a trade war that wasn’t and a Mideast jolt
President Donald Trump keeps cranking out executive orders designed to remake the government while his ally and adviser, ...
A government shutdown could be coming on March 14— and DOGE is a key factor
Democrats say the Trump administration's moves to reshape the federal government without congressional input make reaching a ...
Where the fight over USAID’s future stands
The future of the government’s foreign assistance agency hangs in the balance after a federal judge temporarily paused the Trump administration’s plan to place thousands of employees on ...