USAID went into the woodchipper, and we’re all paying a price

Attack waste, not lifesaving aid

Cuts to USAID and PEPFAR have hurt Christian hospitals

The president of the Honduran Congress, Luis Redondo, announced on Wednesday night the creation of a Multiparty Special Commission to investigate all public and private institutions that received funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), after the closure of this agency by the US government, which alleged corruption, embezzlement of funds and operating for political purposes abroad.

Ted Koppel Does A Lousy Job On USAID

I watch CBS Sunday morning every week. One segment on April 20 was Ted Koppel’s look at the cuts in USAID spending. There were three main things wrong with his reporting, all of which showed laziness or indifference or something else.

USAID went into the woodchipper, and we’re all paying a price

After the Trump administration’s assaults on USAID, and pushback from its allies, where are we today? Well, a lot of vituperation has built up in the system, with astonishingly little serious analysis by Congress or national security leaders.

The government erases more data  - American Press Institute

Data decimation  ProPublica last week published an examination of what it calls the “war on measurement,” the Trump administration’s abandonment of data that help policymakers and others — such as journalists — gauge the effectiveness of government programs. Providing example after example, writer Alec MacGillis details the data programs that have been shut down or are at risk of being cut back. NPR’s Will Stone zeroes in on one of the targets, …

Trump's foreign aid cuts are a 'slow-running disaster', former USAID administrator says

In an interview with FRANCE 24, J. Brian Atwood, who was head of USAID under Bill Clinton, warned that US President Donald Trump's deep foreign aid cuts are a "slow-running disaster" that would severely impact global health, food security and migration. "Many, many people are going to suffer," he said, adding that "there'll be a lot more migration". Atwood said the Trump administration had a "transactional" and "narrow-minded" worldview that aba…