Rubio blames 'insubordination' at USAID for major upheaval at development agency
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday the original intention was to keep the U.S. Agency for International ...
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Chris Hayes explains how Elon Musk is using his Twitter takeover playbook to gut government agencies, with moves many legal ...
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'Thank you for your service': Trump administration puts USAID staff on leave
In a brief note posted on the international development agency's website, almost all employees were told they would be put on ...
What is USAID? Here’s what to know about the agency targeted by Trump, Musk for shutdown
USAID programs include things like vaccination initiatives, which can help prevent the spread of diseases, but critics claim ...
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What is USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development?
Formed in 1961, the agency with a roughly $40 billion budget provides humanitarian assistance abroad and funds other projects ...
Rubio’s years of strong support for USAID stands in contrast to his sudden criticism of the aid agency
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, newly in charge of the besieged US Agency for International Development, was for years a ...
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Musk says he, Trump in process of closing US Agency for International Development
Billionaire Entrepreneur Elon Musk, now in charge of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, said ...
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What does USAID, the agency Musk is taking apart, really do?
Since then, USAID has acted as the US government’s main conduit for global development work — everything from emergency relief after earthquakes to longer-term efforts in health, infrastructure, ...
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Joni Ernst Says USAID ‘Abused The System,’ Agency Threatened Her For Seeking Transparency
Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst appeared Monday on Newsmax to say that members of the United States Agency for International ...
End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say
“All the signals of how the senior staff have been put on administrative leave, many of the field staff and headquarters ...
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Trump to withdraw US from UN Human Rights Council, end funding for Gaza aid agency
Trump and Netanyahu will be a holding a joint news conference at the White House on Tuesday, Trump's first joint news ...
Former USAID official on possible agency merger, funding cutbacks: "It's not an overhaul. It's a destruction"
Dr. Atul Gawande said denigrating the agency is "dangerous for the country" and shuttering its programs could make Americans ...