Oxfam America12d
What USAID does, its impact and what Trump’s cuts mean
Foreign aid programs help people around the world in various ways, providing food, healthcare, education, economic development, and disaster relief. It’s a key part of U.S. foreign policy and ...
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s request to keep billions in foreign aid frozen
A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid ...
District Court Rules Trump Violated Constitution by Usurping Congress's Spending Power
US District Judge Amir Ali ruled against the Trump Administration in an important case involving control over the spending ...
Supreme Court’s Ruling a Victory for Foreign Aid Groups, but How Big Is Unclear
The groups that sued insist the court’s ruling ought to force the Trump administration to restore all funding delivered via U.S.A.I.D. But the administration says it has the power to decimate the ...
Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to keep $2 billion in foreign aid frozen
Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt a lower court order that required the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid funding, clearing the way for the ...
Mercury News7d
National Politics
Charitable organizations that relied on U.S. foreign assistance are looking to different private and public donors now that the Trump administration suspended nearly all foreign aid contracts.
Newsday7d
US foreign aid cuts leave a funding gap that private donors are unlikely to fill
Charitable organizations that relied on U.S. foreign assistance are looking to different private and public donors now that the Trump administration suspended nearly all foreign aid contracts.
How Trump’s foreign aid and diplomatic cuts will make it harder for the US to wield soft power to maintain its friendships and win new ones
Soft power is the ability of nations, in this case the U.S., to use its appeal – and others’ affinity and often friendship toward it – to induce cooperation. In other words, it is a strategy to get ...
Trump State Department nominee says private sector investment should replace foreign aid
A senior official poised to be the next US deputy secretary of state testified before lawmakers on Tuesday that Washington ...
The Independent10d
Musk is wrong about foreign aid – it’s how countries show their character to the world
Mr Lammy visited on January 24 before the government announced cuts to the UK foreign aid budget (Stefan Rousseau ... were left to issue expensive debt. So why do it? Surely, if one wants to ...
The Economist9d
Why some Africans see opportunity in foreign-aid cuts
ENDING DEPENDENCE on foreign donors would not only lead to ... when he launched his “Ghana beyond aid” policy in 2017. Eight years later the west African country may indeed move beyond aid ...