After the Trump administration upended the world’s largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan for the agency was clear: ...

The development community — NGOs, faith-based organizations, universities, research institutions, and contractors — has watched in disbelief as the goal of shared prosperity is displaced by a ...

Explore how the United States uses foreign aid to advance its interests and promote stability and development around the world. CFR Education aims to build global affairs literacy by providing free, ...

Few tools of American foreign policy have shaped the modern world more profoundly than military aid and foreign assistance. From supplying British warships before Pearl Harbor to funding Ukraine’s ...

WASHINGTON — Seven months after the Trump administration shut down the US Agency for International Development, foreign aid is more efficient, effective and America First than ever, according to a ...

A bipartisan bill allocates $50 billion for foreign aid spending in 2026, down from what was allocated in 2024 but billions more than what the Trump administration had signaled it would approve. After ...

Last summer, the Dalai Lama was having a party in Dharamshala for his 90th birthday, and Bethany Morrison, a newly appointed State Department official, was eager to meet with him there. Inconveniently ...

Veprek became the head of the State Department’s foreign assistance, humanitarian affairs and religious freedom bureau on Aug. 28, following the departure of Jeremy Lewin earlier this month. Andrew ...