US Senate Passes Aid, Public Broadcasting Cuts
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Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in the cases against accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has been fired. Although a reason for the dismissal was not immediately clear, she is also the daughter of James Comey, who is the former director of the FBI and a critic of President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration dismantled USAID, causing distribution disruptions. Now some has expired, and it is set to be destroyed due to protocol.
Humanitarians in Sudan, where a three-year civil war has made assistance increasingly difficult, warn that a vacuum left by cuts to U.S. funding cannot be filled.
Gregory Meeks outlines concerns that agency's staffing cuts and personnel decisions fail to retain talent needed to meet national security priorities - Anadolu Ajansı
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As the Trump administration ends USAID's mission, a project to bring water to drought-ridden lands is now in peril. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, William Brangham and producer Molly Knight Raskin traveled to a community in central Kenya to look at the legacy of American foreign aid.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the end of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Tuesday as a new analysis found that its demolition could contribute to 14 million deaths in the next five years.
Former Presidents Bush and Obama, along with U2's Bono, console USAID employees as the agency is shuttered amid Trump administration claims of fraud and mismanagement.
The U.S. Agency for International Development will on Tuesday officially stop implementing foreign aid, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, adding that America's assistance in the future will be targeted and limited.
The analysis, published in the Lancet, estimates the agency’s programs saved 91 million lives worldwide over two decades, playing a vital role in global health.
USAID was a form of soft power that helped to spread democracy to low- and middle-income nations. Now, those same countries could fall under the sway of Russia and China, creating a more volatile world where the number of U.S. allies steadily dwindles.