Washington, United States: President Donald Trump on Friday called for USAID to be shuttered, escalating his unprecedented campaign to dismantle the humanitarian agency. “THE CORRUPTION IS AT LEVELS RARELY SEEN BEFORE. CLOSE IT DOWN!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social app without offering any evidence to back up his assertion. His latest attack on the … Read more
Washington DC: Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the American capital on Wednesday as part of a nationwide protest against the Trump administration’s move to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID) – a department that was the largest bilateral donor in the world just three weeks ago. The protest outside the Capitol building in … Read more
Washington, United States: The Trump administration’s attempt to fold the USAID humanitarian agency into the State Department calls into question the future of tens of billions of dollars in financial support to some of the world’s poorest countries. The United States is the world’s largest provider of official development assistance, according to the Organization for … Read more
Washington: Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and President Donald Trump’s controversial close advisor, said Monday the giant USAID humanitarian agency will be “shutting down” as part of his radical — and critics say unconstitutional — drive to shrink the US government. Employees at the US Agency for International Development, which runs aid programs in … Read more