Earlier this year, the Trump administration’s defunding of USAID brought an abrupt halt to hundreds of global health programs ...

That has all stopped." USAID's closure comes amid a study published in The Lancet on Monday that found cuts to USAID could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030.

USAID — the agency that oversaw the distribution of foreign aid — was among the first to face drastic personnel cuts by DOGE. On Feb. 2, Musk posted on X that "USAID is a criminal organization.

A federal judge has ordered USAID to pay out contracts and grants for all foreign assistance work done by mid-February. However, processing those payments has been slow going, and as of a March 27 ...