US: Trump Administration Guts Foreign Aid

By Human Rights Watch

(Washington, DC) – The Trump administration’s termination of over 90 percent of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) programming and thousands of State Department foreign assistance programs will undermine human rights globally and imperil millions of people, Human Rights Watch said today. On February 26, 2025, the State Department announced that a review of all US foreign assistance, ordered after a sudden suspension of all programming in January, had been finalized on February 25. The department stated that it had terminated 5,800…

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