Why USAID is such a critical piece of the global climate aid puzzle – and what happens next as it is cut - CLIMATE ANALYSIS: ...

But we need to remember that at a total budget of about $40 billion (which includes support to Israel, Egypt and other nations), USAID’s budget is well under 1 percent of the total U.S ...

making up a roughly US$50 billion drop in the $6 trillion ocean of the federal budget. But USAID’s projects have had an outsized effect on the world. From a foreign policy standpoint ...