Aid officials managed to save 622 tonnes of the energy-dense biscuits in June – sending them to Syria, Bangladesh and Myanmar – but 496 tonnes, worth $793,000 before they expired this month, will be destroyed, according to two internal USAID memos reviewed by Reuters, dated May 5 and May 19, and four sources familiar with the matter.

The end of USAID will also likely result in around 200,000 children becoming paralyzed in some manner, as the program distributed polio vaccines. Around 160,000 could also die from malaria because of the program ending.

As the Trump administration ends USAID's mission, a project to bring water to drought-ridden lands is now in peril. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, William Brangham and producer Molly Knight Raskin traveled to a community in central Kenya to look at the legacy of American foreign aid.

Humanitarians in Sudan, where a three-year civil war has made assistance increasingly difficult, warn that a vacuum left by cuts to U.S. funding cannot be filled.

USAID programs have saved over 90 million lives over the past two decades. If the current cuts continue through 2030, 14 million people could lose their lives.

Congress has until Friday to send its rescissions bill, which would defund USAID, NPR, PBS, and more, to President Donald Trump's desk.

Warehouses in the US are full of foods that fight malnutrition, while kids go hungry in places like South Sudan.

The U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year program even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in place,

Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bono sent off U.S. Agency for International Development employees with a tribute video. The former presidents and lead singer of U2 joined a teleconference call with USAID employees on their final day as an independent agency. They discussed the impact and importance of USAID.

Bill Gates said the effects of President Donald Trump's USAID cuts are "devastating" but can be prevented. The Gates Foundation, where Gates is board chair, has worked extensively with the U.S. Agency for International Development. Gates' comments come a week after he said the aid rollbacks have already led to deaths.

USAID was a form of soft power that helped to spread democracy to low- and middle-income nations. Now, those same countries could fall under the sway of Russia and China, creating a more volatile world where the number of U.S. allies steadily dwindles.