Politics Aug 01 Trump officials weigh fate of $9M contraceptives stockpile feared earmarked for destruction By Lorne Cook, John Leicester, Associated Press
Politics Mar 28 Federal appeals court clears way for DOGE to continue making cuts at USAID “While defendants’ role and actions related to USAID are not conventional, unconventional does not necessarily equal unconstitutional,” Circuit Judge Marvin Quattlebaum, who was appointed by Trump, wrote. By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press
Politics Mar 06 Trump administration must pay nearly $2B in USAID and State Department debts, judge rules A federal judge on Thursday gave the Trump administration until Monday to pay nearly $2 billion in debts to partners of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department, thawing the administration’s six-week funding freeze on all foreign… By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press
Politics Feb 23 Trump administration moves ahead with firing 2,000 USAID workers, with thousands more put on leave The Trump administration said Sunday that it was placing all but a fraction of staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave worldwide and eliminating 2,000 U.S.-based staff positions. By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press
World Feb 21 Judge clears way for Trump administration to pull thousands of USAID workers off the job U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols declined to keep in place his temporary block on the effort to remove all but a small fraction of USAID staffers from their posts, as part of an administration plan that would also give those… By Ellen Knickmeyer, Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press
Feb 08 Watch 5:39 Fate of USAID in question as judge sets back Trump’s efforts to dismantle agency By Ali Rogin, Harry Zahn, Gerard Edic A federal judge has paused until next Friday the Trump administration’s plan to place more than 2,000 employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development on paid leave. It’s a setback in Trump’s efforts to dismantle the global humanitarian agency… Continue watching
Feb 02 USAID security chiefs put on leave after trying to stop Musk’s team from accessing classified info, officials say By Ellen Knickmeyer, Matthew Lee, Associated Press The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk's government-inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. official told… Continue reading
Aug 23 Watch 9:04 A scientific approach to evaluating global anti-poverty programs By Fred de Sam Lazaro In Ethiopia, over a quarter of the population survives on less than two dollars a day. International organizations and foreign governments provide funds to address the rampant poverty in this country and others, but little data is available to assess… Continue watching
Apr 30 Obama to nominate Gayle Smith as next USAID chief By News Desk President Barack Obama intends to nominate Gayle Smith, his adviser and the senior director for development and democracy at the National Security Council, as the next administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the White House said Thursday. Continue reading
Nov 11 Watch Philippines has faced ‘one blow after another’ in disaster relief efforts Philippines have faced 'one blow after another' in disaster relief efforts… Continue watching