Russia and Belarus cheer dismantling of USAID as rights groups voice concerns

I don’t think anybody’s going to die because we don’t give the Taliban any more condoms.”

Mocking the move, he remarked

USAID is being run by radical lunatics,”

President Donald Trump, long a vocal critic of USAID, signed an executive order halting foreign aid for 90 days, declaring

Now is the moment when these international networks have to be taken down, they have to be swept away,

Orbán said

It's a shame, ... the fund

said Kovcheg's founder, Anastasia Burakova,

Without their existence, our work will become significantly more difficult,

a spokesman for OVD-Info said

Without immediate alternative support, these crucial activities may not continue at the same scale or effectiveness,

said Ion Manole, the association’s executive director

The notion that the agency are criminals and all that, that’s a lot of garbage. It’s a lie, it’s an insult,

said Andrew Natsios, a Republican who served as the USAID head under President George W. Bush, in an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace

You don’t see the programs, if you saw the program there’d be no one in the Congress voting against it,

said Natsios, who cited “far-right wing” lawmakers and “prominent” conservatives — including Rush Limbaugh — who supported USAID programs after seeing them in action around the world

The people, when they start panicking, they start moving. In almost every famine that’s taken place in the last 50 years and we’re going to pay the price later on.”

He continued

We’re not going to have that anymore, it’s going to disappear. It’s already shut down now. In my view, this is an enormous risk for the United States,

he said

Rubio claims that USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa."

Atul Gawande, who earlier led USAID, posted on X (formerly Twitter

Beyond 30 days, however, Agency funded and arranged return travel may not be available unless an individualized exception is sought and granted,

the memo states

A lot of people will not survive,

said Atwood, now a senior fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute

Any entity giving out taxpayer dollars abroad should, at the very least, require its recipients and their contractors to disclose any ties to terrorists or corrupt oligarchs America has sanctioned,

Mast said Thursday

Despite these obligations, direct reporting to OIG from UN agencies is limited and at times significantly delayed if not altogether absent,

Martin wrote, using the acronym for his Office of the Inspector General

This is also why the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee must conduct a full State Department reauthorization for the first time since 2002,

Mast added

Obtaining information from U.N. agencies remains a lengthy and frustrating undertaking, delaying OIG’s ability to investigate allegations of fraud, sexual abuse, and other matters such as,

he wrote

When the US pulls away, it's not clear what those other countries will do there'll be a collective action problem

Powers added

This [is] not about ending foreign aid. It is about structuring it in a way that furthers the national interest of the United States,

Rubio said during his multiday trip to Latin America

We are ordered to stop work on those grants for 90 days pending further review. And that means our Southeast Asia program might not be able to keep the lights on,

he wrote