Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act and Kennedy set up USAID as an independent agency in 1961. USAID has outlived the Soviet Union, which fell in 1991. Today, supporters of USAID argue that ...

Trump administration officials are proposing new plans to overhaul how America gives out foreign assistance in the wake ... this could require an act of Congress and changes to the Foreign Affairs ...

The Trump administration continues to downsize the United States Agency for International Development, canceling grants, ...

The Trump administration has not fully complied with a court order pausing the freezing of foreign assistance grants and ... the Administrative Procedure Act. Earlier this week, the administration ...

The Trump administration’s halt on foreign aid is starting to hollow out international development groups and private federal contractors that carry out aid missions abroad — and threatens to ...

Trump issued an executive order in January 2025 instructing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to pause all foreign assistance payments, pending a review to ensure they are “efficient and consistent ...

Although America still needs a powerful foreign assistance tool in its arsenal to combat malign influence from China and others, solve the migration crisis and bring prosperity to the homeland ...

On a blasting hot, sunny day in El Salvador in 2006, I was standing in a field in the central region of the country with a ...

I urge Washington Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell to do everything they can to resume foreign assistance. More importantly, I hope all of us will bear witness to the harm our policymakers ...

Established in 1961 by an act of Congress, USAID had become the US’s primary arm for distributing foreign assistance abroad. But under Trump’s order, only aid that aligned with the president ...