Executive order comes days after judge said such retaliation was likely unconstitutional President Trump escalated his fight with the legal industry by issuing an executive order late Friday aimed at Paul Weiss, one of the country’s top law firms, just days after a federal judge chastised the administration for similar retaliation against another firm. MORE
Several employees of the United States’ funded international news broadcast service were placed on administrative leave this week. In an executive order signed on Friday, President Donald Trump outlined seven federal agencies to be reduced in size, including the United States Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America. The reduction was made to … [Read more…]
As the world’s richest men slash American aid for the world’s poorest children, they insist that all is well. “No one has died as a result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding,” Elon Musk said. “No one.” That is not true. In South Sudan, one of the world’s … [Read more…]
March 07, 2025 – Washington, DC – Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Jared Moskowitz, Ranking Member of Subcommittee on Oversight and Intelligence, today sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding answers on media reports alleging potentially unlawful procurement activities surrounding $400 million to Elon Musk’s … [Read more…]
Ranking Member Gregory Meeks: “Rubio’s unlawful termination of the @PayneFellowship—USAID’s competitive, merit-based pipeline for top talent—undermines the govt’s ability to recruit top talent. Congress authorized the program in the national interest. Hastily ending it is self-sabotage.”
In his joint address to Congress on Tuesday, President Trump took a jab at a number of foreign aid programs. “Just listen to some of the appalling waste,” he said and then rattled off a list of examples, including: “$10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique.” He’s referring to one country but USAID — the … [Read more…]
On March 10, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, in cases titled AIDS Vaccine Coalition v. U.S. Department of State and Global Health Council v. Trump, granted in part a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Office of Management and Budget … [Read more…]
The Trump administration is signaling it may bring criminal referrals against employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) or grantee recipients over allegations of misuse of foreign assistance, which would mark an extraordinary next step in the administration’s push to gut the agency. Peter Marocco, who is serving as acting deputy administrator for … [Read more…]
Assets still in-country without active U.S. control are at risk of looting, terrorism, or being seized by other parties, making it crucial to address their status and management promptly. To understand the status of these assets and help inform the agency’s decisions about next steps, the Office of Inspector General is initiating work examining the … [Read more…]
Officials at the US Agency for International Development (USAid) have begun a large-scale destruction of classified documents at their headquarters in the Ronald Reagan building in Washington DC including with shredders and using “burn bags”, according to an internal email seen by the Guardian. The email, sent by the acting USAid secretary, Erica Y Carr, … [Read more…]