The Hawaiian lawmaker is acting in protest of recent talk about potentially dismantling USAID, he says. Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said Monday that he will place a hold on President Donald Trump’s State Department nominees following a recent flurry of activity in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Schatz, who sits on the Senate
The U.S. Agency for International Development is facing a reckoning under the second Trump administration following years of allegations of mismanagement of funds.
Washington — President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have set their sights on the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, overseeing a disruption of the more than 60-year-old organization that provides humanitarian aid to more than 100 countries. The Trump administration’s targeting of USAID comes as the president has vowed to cut the size
The Biden administration reversed both moves in 2021. WASHINGTON—The United States will withdraw again from the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and end funding to the U.N. agency dealing with Palestinian refugees, a White House official told The Epoch Times. The United States withdrew from the UNHRC and ended funding to UNRWA, or the U.N.
Amid scrutiny over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s pledge to divest his financial stake in vaccine lawsuits to his family, legal experts criticized the move but say it's been done by other public officials.
Trump has called for negotiations to end the Russia–Ukraine war, but has left open questions about continued U.S. support to Ukraine as the fighting rages on. President Donald Trump has suggested the United States could stand to gain access to Ukraine’s supply of rare earth minerals in exchange for continued U.S. support for the nation
New York Attorney General Letitia James warned hospitals to continue providing sex-change procedures for minors, despite President Trump's EO prohibiting it.