An official at the US Agency for International Development has ordered employees to shred a large volume of records, according to a court filing on Tuesday by government employee unions asking a judge to block the move. In a motion filed in Washington, DC, federal court, the unions cited an email from USAID’s acting executive … Read more
A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to let President Donald Trump’s administration withhold payment to foreign aid organizations for work they already performed for the government as the Republican president moves to pull the plug on American humanitarian projects around the world. Handing a setback to Trump, the court in a 5-4 decision … Read more
India’s first three clinics for the transgender community closed last month following a stop-work order from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) that funded them, disrupting services for nearly 5,000 people, Reuters reported quoting two sources. US President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day pause on all foreign aid in January pending a review to … Read more
US Agency for International Development workers were allowed to briefly reenter the headquarters in Washington on Thursday to collect their personal belongings and clear out their desks, a day after President Donald Trump’s administration said it was cutting more than 90% of the agency’s aid contracts. Trump ordered a 90-day pause on all foreign aid … Read more
New Delhi: US President Donald Trump today launched fresh criticism of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for allegedly granting funds to interfere in India’s election process. President Trump questioned why the US was providing aid to India, alleging that the country already benefits from high tariffs imposed on American goods. “Eighteen million … Read more
India said the US Agency for International Development (USAID) $21 million fund for ‘voter turnout in India’ in 2012, “raises worries of interference in Indian internal matters, and relevant agencies are looking into it.” The Ministry of External Affairs’ response to the $21 million ‘India Fund’ sanctioned by USAID came after a political clash between … Read more
US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that his predecessor Joe Biden gave $100 million worth of condoms to Hamas. During a speech in Florida, he highlighted the figure and said this was part of wasteful government spending, citing information from billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The 78-year-old, who is into … Read more
Washington: President Donald Trump’s administration plans to keep fewer than 300 staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development out of the agency’s worldwide total of more than 10,000, four sources told Reuters on Thursday. Washington’s primary humanitarian aid agency has been a target of a government reorganization program spearheaded by businessman Elon Musk, a … Read more