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I don’t think anybody’s going to die because we don’t give the Taliban any more condoms.”
Mocking the move, he remarked USAID is being run by radical lunatics,”
President Donald Trump, long a vocal critic of USAID, signed an executive order halting foreign aid for 90 days, declaring It's a shame, ... the fund
said Kovcheg's founder, Anastasia Burakova, Now is the moment when these international networks have to be taken down, they have to be swept away,
Without immediate alternative support, these crucial activities may not continue at the same scale or effectiveness,
said Ion Manole, the association’s executive director Without their existence, our work will become significantly more difficult,
a spokesman for OVD-Info said USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die."
Elon Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter, on February 2: The Mandate does lament that USAID's spending and bureaucracy have grown too large, calling out the 'aid industrial complex' that they claim has developed in response to an agency that needs more oversight. But the Mandate does not suggest—or even hint at—doing away with the agency wholesale, as Musk has done."
The author of the Tracking Project 2025 blog said in a Thursday post USAID, run by radical lunatics, and we're getting them out, and then we'll make a decision."
President Donald Trump told reporters on February 2: Rubio claims that USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa."
Atul Gawande, who earlier led USAID, posted on X (formerly Twitter Beyond 30 days, however, Agency funded and arranged return travel may not be available unless an individualized exception is sought and granted,
A lot of people will not survive,
said Atwood, now a senior fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute Any entity giving out taxpayer dollars abroad should, at the very least, require its recipients and their contractors to disclose any ties to terrorists or corrupt oligarchs America has sanctioned,
This is also why the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee must conduct a full State Department reauthorization for the first time since 2002,
Despite these obligations, direct reporting to OIG from UN agencies is limited and at times significantly delayed if not altogether absent,
Martin wrote, using the acronym for his Office of the Inspector General Obtaining information from U.N. agencies remains a lengthy and frustrating undertaking, delaying OIG’s ability to investigate allegations of fraud, sexual abuse, and other matters such as,
When the US pulls away, it's not clear what those other countries will do there'll be a collective action problem
This [is] not about ending foreign aid. It is about structuring it in a way that furthers the national interest of the United States,
Rubio said during his multiday trip to Latin America We are ordered to stop work on those grants for 90 days pending further review. And that means our Southeast Asia program might not be able to keep the lights on,
These are taxpayer dollars, and we owe the American people assurances that every dollar we are spending abroad is being spent on something that furthers our national interest,
he told reporters while visiting El Salvador earlier this week
