1 day ago · Melania and Ivanka Trump toured Africa to promote USAID programs. "We care," Melania Trump declared in 2018 during a visit to Egypt as first lady to promote her partnership with the U.S. Agency ...

8 hours ago · First Lady Melania Trump tours the Egyptian pyramids and Sphinx in Giza, Egypt, October 2018 during a partnership with USAID, the federal agency President Donald Trump is now trying to dismantle.

President Donald Trump and his right-hand man, Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency, have put the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under fire this ...

1 day ago · Melania and Ivanka Trump used thousands of dollars from USAID to fund pet projects during Trump's first term it's been revealed as the agency's spending comes under scrutiny from the president.

7 hours ago · But this is the only way we’ve been able to get cooperation from USAID.” First Lady Melania Trump heaped effusive praise on USAID during a 2018 trip to Africa, including a visit to a school in ...

9 hours ago · In just two weeks, the Trump Administration has gutted USAID — the U.S. Agency for International Development — the government agency overseeing global efforts to improve health and education ...

2 days ago · Similarly, Trump on Sunday said that USAID was being run by “radical lunatics.” The future of USAID was also a key focus of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative policy blueprint.

4 days ago · What’s going on with USAID? On his first day in office Jan. 20, Trump implemented a 90-day freeze on foreign assistance. Four days later, Peter Marocco — a returning political appointee from Trump’s first term — drafted a tougher than expected interpretation of that order, a move that shut down thousands of programs around the world and forced furloughs and layoffs.

2 days ago · They defended the USAID workforce, which has come under vicious rhetorical attack by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The US Agency for International Development headquarters is seen on ...

4 days ago · The agency’s funding accounts for a tiny portion of the federal budget, but its structure may have made it an easy target for Trump-era cost-cutting. By Noah Weiland and Stephanie Nolen The ...