USAID cuts 2025
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What USAID did, and the effects of Trump's cuts on lifesaving aid
by By Oxfam America Oxfam 6/11/2025
U.S. foreign aid has long played a critical role in tackling poverty, hunger, and inequality worldwide, which is why the Trump administration’s recent cuts were met with public outrage and pushback from development and humanitarian organizations, including Oxfam.
Despite widespread public support for U.S.-funded foreign aid, the Trump administration has shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) , which funded the majority of U.S. humanitarian and development assistance worldwide to people in some of the worst crises. The effect of these cuts on people is dire: At least 23 million children stand to lose access to education, and as many as 95 million people would lose access to basic healthcare, potentially leading to more than 3 million preventable deaths per year.
Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis
by Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester 17/2/25 PROPUBLICA
On July 18, a mild, overcast night in Nairobi, Kenya, a team of President Donald Trump’s top foreign aid advisers ducked into a meeting room at the Tribe Hotel, their luxury accommodations in the city’s diplomatic quarter, for a private dinner.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy 15/12/25 PROPUBLICA
On the one-month anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration earlier this year, a group of his appointed aides gathered to celebrate.
Medical experts concerned USAID spending cuts could impact global health programs
by Geoff Bennett 28/1/25 PBS NEWS
The uncertainty around the Trump administration's sweeping funding freeze is also alarming many in the world of global health, since it could affect key programs overseen by the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.
Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts
by Jonathan Lambert 1/7/25 npr
That argument clashes with a new study published Monday in the medical journal, the Lancet. The study estimates that USAID programs have saved over 90 million lives over the past two decades. The researchers also estimate that if the current cuts continue through 2030, 14 million people who might have otherwise lived could die.
Aid groups say USAID cuts are already having deadly consequences
by Gabrielle Emanuel, Steve Inskeep 28/5/25 npr
President Trump, with the help of Elon Musk, cut billions of dollars in global health programs earlier this year. The administration has dismissed the idea that that had much effect. Here's an exchange between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Democratic Representative Brad Sherman of California during a hearing last week.
USAID cuts had 'severe impact' on Somalia's economy, says development bank chief
U.S. President Donald Trump has slashed the country's foreign aid budget, and shuttered USAID earlier this year. The agency had supported health, education and development worldwide.
USAID cuts are even being felt at high school science fairs
International humanitarian groups are still reeling from President Trump slashing hundreds of jobs and spending by the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. There are consequences large and small reaching all the way down to high school science fairs. Henry Larson has this report from Colorado.
'You can now die': The human cost of America's foreign aid cuts in Africa
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Rubio announces that 83% of USAID contracts will be canceled
by Melody Schreiber 10/3/25 npr
"The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States," Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on X early Monday morning.
Trump global aid cuts risk 14 million deaths in five years, report says
President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal.
In Mozambique, an ISIS insurgency is newly energized as US cuts impact aid programs
by Nick Paton Walsh 21/11/25 CNN
Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique
Musty salt air crept at dusk over the nets and moored boats on northern Mozambique’s coast as seven armed and uniformed men marched into the fishing community last month, demanding the keys to the mosque.
Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
by Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester 28/5/25 ProPublica
American diplomats in at least two countries have recently delivered internal reports to Washington that reflect a grim new reality taking hold abroad: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign aid is bringing about the violence and chaos that many had warned would come.
He led the 2014 US response to Ebola. He says USAID cuts will impact future readiness
That's Elon Musk, speaking Wednesday at President Trump's first cabinet meeting. It's a comment that caught the ear of Jeremy Konyndyk, who led America's response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014 as director of USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance. Jeremy Konyndyk joins us now. Good morning.
