Elon Musk's DOGE agency gains access to Medicare, Medicaid payments
Representatives of Elon Musk's new federal agency have access to payments and contracting information from the Centers for ...
Musk says United States Agency for International Development to be shut down in government cost-cutting drive
Elon Musk, leading the federal cost-cutting panel, announced plans to shut down USAID, describing it as 'beyond repair.' The U.S., as the world's largest single donor, disbursed $72 billion in aid in ...
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Trump to withdraw US from UN Human Rights Council, end funding for Gaza aid agency
Trump and Netanyahu will be a holding a joint news conference at the White House on Tuesday, Trump's first joint news ...
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Joni Ernst Says USAID ‘Abused The System,’ Agency Threatened Her For Seeking Transparency
Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst appeared Monday on Newsmax to say that members of the United States Agency for International ...
Former USAID official calls its closure an 'extinction-level event for the global aid sector'
ABC News' Linsey Davis spoke to Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International and a former lead official at USAID, about efforts to shutter the global aid agency.
Iran praises US for cutting foreign aid funding as it looks for a Trump message on nuclear talks
Iran’s government seems to be welcoming decisions by the United States — even though they happen to come from a man Iranian ...
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UN agency says US waiver to help in continued supply of life-saving HIV treatment
Contractors and partners who work with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) began receiving memos to stop work immediately, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing sources.
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Trump administration explores bringing USAID under State Department, sources say
WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is moving to strip a slimmed-down U.S. Agency for International ... countries with which the United States has no diplomatic relations ...
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Musk says he is working to shut down USAID in government efficiency drive
began with Musk saying they were working to shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). "It's beyond repair," Musk said, adding that President Trump agrees it should ...
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U.S. Halt to Foreign Aid Cripples Programs Worldwide
Doug Mills/The New York Times The crisis had deepened on Monday evening, when Jason Gray, the acting head of the United States Agency for International Development, put about 60 top officials on ...
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Trump administration memo tells USAID to put 'America First' in reviewing foreign aid
Ukrainian rescuers appear next to new equipment, which was provide by United States Agency for International Development before a press conference of the USAID Administrator Samantha Power during ...
What is USAID? Explaining the US foreign aid agency and why Trump and Musk want to end it
Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance to other countries. Over the last two ...