Gaza, Hamas and USAID
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Thousands of federal employees have lost their jobs since the start of Trump’s term. Fired USAID employee Kathleen Borgueta joins The Weekend to discuss her organization “Pivoting Parents” and why terminated federal workers are bringing their kids to Congress.
A Towson-based government contracting company has been sued by three people who said they weren’t paid for their work on USAID programs abroad.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed two lawsuits on Friday aimed at blocking the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), delivering a major legal win for the White House in its broader effort to consolidate foreign aid operations under the State Department.
The Trump administration dismantled USAID, causing distribution disruptions. Now some has expired, and it is set to be destroyed due to protocol.
The Gates Foundation, for example, plans to accelerate its spending to help fill the void left by the US; I know of other, smaller funders trying to do the same thing. Aid recipients, too, can change their behavior: While some will die without their medication, others will find a way to pay for the medication at the expense of other necessities.
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The process of remote wiping government phones has been slow, employees who used to do work for the agency said.
As the Trump administration ends USAID's mission, a project to bring water to drought-ridden lands is now in peril. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, William Brangham and producer Molly Knight Raskin traveled to a community in central Kenya to look at the legacy of American foreign aid.
USAID has outlived the Soviet Union, which fell in 1991. Today, supporters of USAID argue that U.S. assistance in countries counters Russian and Chinese influence.
Most fired USAID workers were officially taken off the payroll this week. One employee grapples with the abrupt loss of a 17-year career – and tries to figure out what’s next.
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The Trump administration has made a preliminary decision to destroy abortion-inducing materials that were purchased through now-terminated contracts under the Biden administration. A spokesperson at the State Department confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the abortifacient birth control commodities,