USAID order to delete classified records sparks flurry of litigation
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees and outside groups are fighting an order from the agency’s ...
Court Asked to Intervene After Email Orders USAID Workers to Destroy Classified Documents
A union has asked a federal judge to intervene after an email ordered staffers to destroy classified documents.
Opinion
How USAID lost its way — and how to fix America’s humanitarian aid system
Preserve an outdated, opaque system riddled with inefficiency, or forge a leaner, results-driven model that actually serves those in need.
USAID’s freeze has thrust the entire global aid system into uncertainty
Its possible shutdown raises a crucial question: who will fill the void left by one of the world’s largest international aid agencies? If USAID closes down for good, it will mean an drop of around $40 ...
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Secretary of state says 83% of USAID programs are being canceled
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said early Monday that 83% of programs funded by U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, are being canceled, in the latest for the beleaguered agency ...
New York Post21d
How USAID squandered billions in Haiti and around the globe
USAID and its vendors have generally failed to make such data public. This lack of clarity ... For example, the Red Cross set aside some of the original Haiti funds for their own administrative ...
The Washington Post5d
Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency's programs gone
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development ...
Reuters12d
USAID official warns of unnecessary deaths from Trump's foreign aid block, then says he's been put on leave
Enrich warns of preventable deaths due to USAID dismantling Trump's aid freeze ... United Statescategory House Republicans set up Tuesday vote to avert government shutdown 12:17 AM UTC United ...
ABC News3d
As USAID clears out, official directs employees to use shredders, burn bags on documents
"The only labeling required on the burn bags are the words 'SECRET' and 'USAID/(B/IO)' in dark sharpie, if possible," the email said. MORE: 'Radical change': Inside Trump's State Department ...
Los Angeles Times24d
USAID shutdown is upending livelihoods of nonprofit workers, farmers and other Americans
More than 80% of companies that have contracts with USAID are American, according to aid data company DevelopmentAid ... usage in 31 countries — is set to close in April unless it gets a ...
ABC News5d
Sec. of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, 83% of programs gone
Rubio's social media post Monday said that review was now “officially ending," with some 5,200 of USAID's 6,200 programs eliminated. Those programs “spent tens of billions of dollars in ways ...
TwinCities.com25d
The USAID shutdown is upending livelihoods for nonprofit workers, farmers and other Americans
More than 80% of companies that have contracts with USAID are American, according to aid data company DevelopmentAid ... usage in 31 countries — is set to close in April unless it gets a ...