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FILE - Solar panels system funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are seen in the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Majdal Anjar, eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Nov. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

USAID direct-hire staffers put on leave worldwide

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, shakes hands with Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves during a joint news conference at the presidential palace in San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Rubio will face questions about a deal to deport Americans and USAID turmoil

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

USAID humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela is displayed for the media at a warehouse next to the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

USAID staffers told to stay out of Washington headquarters after Musk said Trump agreed to close it

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 21, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

USAID’s humanitarian aid, programs invite onslaught of scrutiny and overtures to action under Trump

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 21, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

How USAID grew from war relief to a global humanitarian mission

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, is pictured Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

What is USAID? Explaining the U.S. foreign aid agency and why Trump and Musk want to end it

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters after watching people board a repatriation flight bound for Colombia at Albrook Airport in Panama City, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio takes the role of acting director of USAID

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, is pictured Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

USAID is a massive pool of waste and corruption and should be shut

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, is pictured Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

What is USAID? Explaining the U.S. foreign aid agency and why Trump and Musk want to end it

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

USAID humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela is displayed for the media at a warehouse next to the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Elon Musk: Trump ‘agreed’ to shutter USAID

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

USAID humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela is displayed for the media at a warehouse next to the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Dozens of USAID senior officials put on leave, citing possible resistance to Trump orders

By Mallory Wilson - Associated Press

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Donald Trump illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Trump can revamp foreign aid, restore U.S. leadership in global development

By Richard Crespin and Avnish Gungadurdoss

FILE - Palestinian women and girls struggle to reach for food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

The U.S. says it pushed retraction of a famine warning for north Gaza. Aid groups express concern.

By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

In this photo posted on the Twitter page of Syria's al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front on March 28, 2015, a fighter from Syria's al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front holds his group flag as he stands in front of the governor building in Idlib province, north Syria. Intermingled among 3 million civilians under siege in the Syrian government's assault on the last opposition stronghold are tens of thousands of al-Qaida-linked fighters and other militants who came from around the world to take part in the country's civil war. (Al-Nusra Front Twitter page via AP) **FILE**

USAID paid for meals that went to Syrian terrorists

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The image provided by U.S, Central Command, shows U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), U.S. Navy sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Israel Defense Forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on May 16, 2024. (U.S. Central Command via AP, File)

Biden pushed Gaza pier over warnings it would undercut other aid routes, watchdog says

By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are brought to a hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

U.S. announces $100M additional aid for Palestinians

Associated Press

James Tshuma, a farmer in Mangwe district in southwestern Zimbabwe,stands in the middle of his dried up crop field amid a drought in Zimbabwe, Friday, March, 22, 2024. A new drought has left millions facing hunger in southern Africa as they experience the effects of extreme weather that scientists say is becoming more frequent and more damaging. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Extreme drought in southern Africa leaves millions hungry

By Farai Mutsaka and Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Migrants from Haiti, Africa, and Central America wait to see if their number will be called to cross the border and apply for asylum in the United States, at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. Dozens of immigrants lined up Friday at a major Tijuana border crossing waiting to learn how the Trump administration's radical new restrictions on who qualifies for asylum would affect the tens of thousands of migrants stuck on the Mexican border seeking refuge.(AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Federal audit dings Kamala Harris’ border czar plan to tackle ‘root cause’ of illegal immigration

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of wheat to be allocated to each waiting family after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. The United States Agency for International Development will restart food aid deliveries across Ethiopia in December, five months after it halted its nationwide program over a massive corruption scheme by local officials (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

US will resume food aid to millions across Ethiopia after monthslong pause over massive corruption

Associated Press

FILE - An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of wheat to be allocated to each waiting family after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. The United States Agency for International Development is resuming food deliveries to hundreds of thousands of refugees in Ethiopia, after assistance was halted earlier this year over a widespread scheme to steal supplies. The decision was made after Ethiopia’s government agreed to remove itself from the dispatch, storage and distribution of refugee food supplies, a USAID spokesperson said on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

U.S. resumes some food aid deliveries to Ethiopia after assistance halted over ‘widespread’ theft

Associated Press