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A 'death sentence for millions' as US cuts more aid Some 42 programs that were previously slated to survive the final round of USAID cuts were killed, primarily for humanitarian assistance or emergency food aid in Africa and the Middle East.

A 'death sentence for millions' as US cuts more aid with @sarajerving.bsky.social

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USAID's 'final mission' email slashes agency's staff, one last time USAID's new deputy administrator, Jeremy Lewin, told the agency's staff they would be fired by either July 1 or Sept. 2, 2025 — and then, potentially, rehired at the State Department through a separat...

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US Congress passes budget bill, but questions remain on foreign aid A continuing resolution means funding levels will remain the same until September, but what that means for foreign assistance is unclear.

Will Congress — either at the behest of the administration or of its own volition — move in the weeks or months ahead to pass a rescission package to claw back some of the funding approved in this bill and codify the cuts made by the Trump administration?

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DOGE 'breaks into' the US Institute of Peace The U.S. Institute of Peace seems to be the first nonprofit that the Department of Government Efficiency has attempted to breach.

Over the last 24 hours, things have escalated at the U.S. Institute of Peace — one of several targeted by an executive order from President Donald Trump last month.

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"When the Trump administration halted funding for...a local organization serving 10,000 people with its HIV/AIDS programming alone...1,000 women lost access to the medications they needed to survive." Follow @elissamio.bsky.social and @devex.com.

Exclusive: Inside the closed-door meeting on USAID’s future The ideas for the agency’s future were shared by Tim Meisburger, the head of USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday.

The future of a shrunk USAID by @elissamio.bsky.social www.devex.com/news/exclusi...

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