The Trump administration stated Wednesday (February 26, 2025) it’s eliminating greater than 90% of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in general U.S. help all over the world.
The documents element the outcomes of a program-by-program evaluate ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump of all of the USAID and the State Department for improvement and aid work abroad.
The cuts detailed by the administration go away few surviving USAID initiatives for advocates to attempt to save in what are ongoing court docket battles. The Trump administration outlined its plans in each an inside memo obtained by The Associated Press and court docket filings Wednesday (February 26, 2025).
The Washington Free Beacon was the primary to report the cuts.
The memo described the administration as spurred by a court docket order that gave officers till the top of day Wednesday (February 26, 2025) to raise the Trump administration’s monthlong block on foreign aid funding.
“In response, State and USAID moved rapidly,” concentrating on USAID and State Department foreign aid applications in huge numbers for contract terminations, the memo stated.
Trump administration officers — after repeated warnings from the the federal decide within the case — additionally stated Wednesday (February 26, 2025) they’d lastly begun paying USAID payments once more after the month-long halt on funds, liberating for supply a number of million of billions of {dollars} owed.
Published – February 27, 2025 06:34 am IST
