Elon Musk acknowledged excessive involvement in politics during his tenure with the Trump administration, particularly ...

White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought clashed with House Democrats on Tuesday over the administration’s spending cuts to foreign aid and grant approvals. The heated ...

One study found Musk’s closing of the U.S. Agency for International Development could cause the deaths of millions of children.

Trump has targeted the U.S. Agency for International Development with budget cuts to eliminate what he considers unnecessary government spending.

The Trump administration wants to take $2 billion away from global health programs to pay to finish closing USAID. CNN reports that the administration wants to use the money to pay for legal costs, ...

Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said a thorough review of spending from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is warranted, following the ...

Since Jan. 20, 2025, the first day of his second term in office, President Donald Trump has slashed U.S. foreign aid spending. It began with a stop-work order that paused spending on everything from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. A Lancet paper published in July evaluates data to illustrate the ...

"Is [the U.S. Agency for International Development] a good use of resources?" James Macinko, a health policy researcher at UCLA, asked in an NPR interview this month. "We found that the average ...

As a U.S. senator, Marco Rubio supported foreign aid and praised the U.S. Agency for International Development, aka USAID. Since he became secretary of state and USAID’s acting director, Rubio has ...