On his first day in office, President Trump signed an Executive Order that put on hold for 90 days all USAID and State Department programmes. In these 90 days all programmes would be reviewed and ...

More: USAID aimed for 'soft power' but ended up in DOGE's crosshairs. Here's how. USAID itself has been largely dismantled, with much of its staff put on leave or let go and more than 80% of its ...

USAID still exists, though it’s a shell of its former self. The agency is getting new leadership, though the team doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. By Steve Benen After the quasi ...

According to a memo circulating among State Department staff and reviewed by WIRED, the Trump administration plans to rename the United States Agency for International Development (USAID ...

Jay Gulledge came to Knoxville to lead a division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory before joining USAID as a climate policy advisor. He was terminated from the foreign aid agency on Feb. 19 as ...

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People." A ...

In a 68-page opinion issued on Tuesday, Chuang — an Obama appointee — ordered the White House to restore former USAID employees’ access to government email, security systems, and payment ...

She notes that the cuts to USAID were “abrupt and without warning,” but stresses that the agency has long promoted anti-Catholic values, naturally impacting the ethos of Catholic charities ...

The Trump administration has finally released their plan on how they’re restructuring USAID. The new scheme comes only weeks after President Donald Trump teamed up with Tesla billionaire Elon ...

Pete Marocco, a Trump administration political appointee who was serving as deputy head of USAID, disclosed the change in the email to State Department staff. It comes after Marocco and Musk’s ...

Instead, the State Department focused on technological improvements, as USAID drilled down on effectiveness, results and aligning programs to policy. Fast-forward four years and the Biden ...

Jeremy Lewin, who has played a central role in DOGE's government-cutting efforts at USAID and other federal agencies, becomes at least the second DOGE lieutenant to be appointed to a top job at an ...