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How Trump’s foreign aid and diplomatic cuts will make it harder for the US to wield soft power to maintain its friendships and win new ones

The Trump administration has proposed shuttering USAID and cutting some of the State Department’s critical diplomatic programs; it has also announced tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China. As scholar Borja Santos Porras has noted, these measures may lead to modest savings, however, the long-term damage to the reputation…

The Conversation

Save the Children CEO Claims Trump's Aid Cuts Threaten the Lives of Millions of Kids Worldwide

Donald Trump's foreign aid cuts threaten the lives of millions of children worldwide, Save the Children CEO claims.

International Business Times

From staff cuts to aid reductions, UN humanitarian agencies scramble in wake of US funding freeze

Trump administration freezes on U.S. foreign aid have led many United Nations organizations to cut staff, budgets and services in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Sudan, Ukraine and even the United States

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Judge Gives Hard Deadline To Trump Administration To Make USAID Payments After Legal Setback

The case stems from lawsuits filed by several non-profit organizations over the Trump administration's foreign aid freeze as part of a broader effort to cut federal spending

Latin Times

How Trump’s $2B court battle over foreign aid could reshape executive authority

Amid the chaos of the Trump administration’s first few weeks in office, a court case regarding the president’s legal right to stop payment of nearly US$2 billion in U.S. Agency for International Development contracts poses an important legal question whose answer may show just how strong the country’s separation of…

The Conversation

US foreign aid projects asked to justify their work in White House survey

Staff questioned on eccentric list of criteria that meet Trump administration’s new national security priorities

The Guardian - UK

US Ends Aid Supporting Opposition To Latin American Authoritarians: Report

U.S. programs supporting opposition activists, political prisoners and religious groups in countries controlled by authoritarian parties in Latin America have been halted

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U.S. Ends Aid Supporting Opposition To Latin American Authoritarians: Report

U.S. programs supporting opposition activists, political prisoners and religious groups in countries controlled by authoritarian parties in Latin America have been halted

Latin Times

SCOTUS rejects Trump aid freeze

A divided Supreme Court narrowly ruled that Trump must release appropriated foreign aid payments

Salon

Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Freeze $2 Bn In Foreign Aid

A divided US Supreme Court handed a legal defeat to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, rejecting his bid to freeze some $2 billion in foreign aid payments.

International Business Times

Supreme court rejects Trump request to continue freezing $2bn in foreign aid

John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett join liberal justices to leave in place lower-court order on USAid cuts

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court tells Trump to pay out $2 billion to USAID after rejecting his bid to pause spending

High court’s ruling clears the way for nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding to be released

The Independent UK

USAID’s history shows decades of good work on behalf of America’s global interests, although not all its projects succeeded

The Trump administration’s sudden dismantling of nearly all foreign aid, including the work carried out by the U.S. Agency for International Development, has upended the government agency’s longtime strategic role in implementing American foreign policy.

The Conversation

Starmer Blindsided by Shock Tax Raid Bombshell as PM Battles Major Foreign Aid Revolt

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faces growing unrest within his party after his decision to slash foreign aid in favor of increased defense spending sparked backlash.

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Annie Lennox says UK will be hit by cuts to foreign aid

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said development assistance aid will be slashed to raise defence spending.

The Guardian - US

White House installs Trump loyalist to lead independent agency in push to reduce foreign aid

Peter Marocco assigned as head of Inter-American Foundation after White House fires president and CEO

The Independent UK

Voices: Musk is wrong about foreign aid – it’s how countries show their character to the world

IN FOCUS: The evidence shows international aid – when spent correctly – can bring tremendous benefits and save millions of lives, writes expert and author Stefan Dercon. But if helping people cope with deprivation won’t convince the Maga crowd, advocates of aid spending will have to try a different argument

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Bus Passes, NHS, and Pensions at Risk – Is Anything Safe from Keir Starmer’s Cuts?

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s decision to slash foreign aid from 0.5% to 0.3% of GDP has raised eyebrows within his own party.

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France launches commission to evaluate overseas aid, amid far-right criticism

France has set up a commission to assess the impact and transparency of its development aid, following allegations by the far right that taxpayers' money is being squandered overseas – echoing similar claims by the United States administration, which has frozen its foreign aid programmes.

The National (Scotland)

'Millions will suffer': Why Labour's aid cut will have devastating results

BACK in July 2021, Keir Starmer – then leader of the opposition – stood at the despatch box lamenting a Tory plan to slash the UK’s foreign…

The Independent UK

USAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have closed

Countries around the world already are feeling the impact of the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding

The Independent UK

Voices: No wonder Anneliese Dodds has resigned over cutting aid to the world’s poorest people – it’s the only right thing to do

COMMENT: Labour’s disgraceful attempt to balance the books on the backs of the poorest people in the world is shameful – but shows Dodds to be a politician of decency and principle, says former deputy foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer loses fourth minister in a year in row over move to cut foreign aid budget

Former Conservative deputy foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell praises Labour MP as a ‘politician of decency and principle’

The National (Scotland)

Anneliese Dodds quits Government in protest over foreign aid cuts

ANNELIESE Dodds has quit her role as international development minister in protest over cuts to foreign aid to boost defence spending.

The Independent UK

Trump's permanent USAID cuts slam humanitarian programs worldwide: 'We are being pushed off a cliff'

Health groups and non-governmental organizations have expressed surprise and outrage after the Trump administration’s decision to cut 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts

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