Tag: foreign assistance
February 23, 2025
World News
The Trump administration is firing 2,000 USAID workers and putting thousands of others on leave
Feb 24, 2025 03:07 AM IST The Trump administration is firing 2,000 USAID workers and putting thousands of others on…
February 21, 2025
World News
Trump administration stalling medical evacuation for USAID staffers, spouses in peril, suits charge
WASHINGTON — A pair of court orders have had only limited effect in slowing the Trump administration’s dismantling of the…
February 12, 2025
World News
USAID faces shutdown threat as Trump administration argues agency is ‘insubordinate’
The Trump administration will present an unforgiving argument for dismantling the US Agency for International Development to a federal judge…
February 03, 2025
World News
Explainer: What is USAID? The US foreign aid agency that Elon Musk branded as ‘criminal organisation’
Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in…
February 03, 2025
World News
Rights groups slam Trump aid freeze as ‘war on development’
Leading reproductive and LGBTQI rights groups on Monday slammed US President Donald Trump’s administration for wielding a “deadly political weapon”…