1 day ago · US News: Explore the connections between USAID, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the context of COVID-19 origins and global health initiatives.

1 day ago · Hannah Cox, co-founder of BASEDPolitics, defends the shuttering of USAID. #usaid #trump. Rising USAID inadvertently funded gain-of-function in Wuhan lab: Interview Rising Feb 5, 2025 / 09:06 AM ...

2 days ago · USAID is the primary federal agency providing foreign aid to countries around the world, and has been under siege by the Trump administration in recent days amid rumors Trump wants to move it ...

11 hours ago · "USAID is one of the worst offenders of waste in Washington," Senate DOGE Caucus chair Joni Ernst said. Primary Menu Sections. ... over $1 million to fund research in the Wuhan lab, $20 million to ...

12 hours ago · USAID handed out more than 6,000 contracts in FY2024. The largest was a $6 billion grant to development firm Chemonics International to work on combating HIV/AIDS. It also received $2.5 billion ...

2 days ago · What’s going on with USAID? On his first day in office Jan. 20, Trump implemented a 90-day freeze on foreign assistance. Four days later, Peter Marocco — a returning political appointee from Trump’s first term — drafted a tougher than expected interpretation of that order, a move that shut down thousands of programs around the world and forced furloughs and layoffs.

3 days ago · The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to ...

4 days ago · USAID was established in 1961 under President John F. Kennedy’s administration and is the US government’s humanitarian arm. It dispenses billions of dollars annually across the world in an ...

2 days ago · The agency’s funding accounts for a tiny portion of the federal budget, but its structure may have made it an easy target for Trump-era cost-cutting. By Noah Weiland and Stephanie Nolen The ...

Mar 18, 2023 · The U.S. government may have made duplicate payments for projects at labs in Wuhan, China, through the NIH and USAID, according to records reviewed by CBS News.