It was Thursday, Jan. 23, and the Trump administration official had discovered that the U.S. Agency for International Development recently made $153 million in payments for a range of expenses.
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 ...
A Burundian official holds up a sack of rice from the final batches delivered by USAID before the agency’s closure. Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images These developments rattled nongovernmental ...