Rubio backtracks on near-total foreign aid freeze, issues humanitarian waiver
Secretary of State Marco Rubio backtracked on Trump’s near-total foreign aid freeze and approved potentially billions of ...
Rubio pauses foreign aid from State Department and USAID to ensure it puts ‘America First’
The Trump administration paused all foreign aid and urged USAID to follow in step or face disciplinary action for not ...
A US shutdown on foreign aid is hitting worldwide. Rubio adds more exemptions
U.S.-funded aid programs worldwide have begun firing staff and preparing to shut down their operations as an unprecedented ...
Rubio Approves Some Foreign Aid Exemptions to Trump’s Spending Halt
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has approved some waivers for emergency food aid and some salaries after President Donald ...
US aid agency in upheaval during foreign assistance freeze and staff departures
Current and former officials at the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) say staffers ...
Funding for AIDS relief program to stop after foreign aid pause ordered
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, provides billions in funding to organizations to combat HIV.
State Dept pulls millions in funding for ‘condoms in Gaza,’ as Trump admin looks to trim spending
The State Department paused several millions of dollars for "condoms in Gaza," as reports say the contraceptives were used as ...
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End the Aid Charade
A reevaluation of foreign assistance programs and an America First policy directive to Secretary of State Marco Rubio were among the 46 executive orders President Trump put his Sharpie to on ...
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State Department freezes new funding for nearly all U.S. aid programs worldwide
The State Department ordered a sweeping freeze Friday on new funding for almost all U.S. foreign assistance, making ...
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Nearly all US aid programmes worldwide frozen after Trump order
Secretary of state Marco ... foreign development assistance, the Trump administration is threatening the lives and futures of communities in crisis, and abandoning the United States' long-held ...
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House Democrats urge Rubio to lift foreign assistance freeze
House Democrats urged President Trump’s Secretary of State Marco ... makes the United States stronger, safer, and more prosperous,” Meeks and Frankel said. The Democrats warned Rubio that ...