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Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Lawmakers accuse USAID of pushing radical ideology abroad, offer bill to defund the agency

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

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 humanitarian agency told The Associated Press it is horrified by conditions in Ethiopia, where local officials have reported hundreds of hunger deaths in recent weeks after the U.S. and the United Nations paused food aid for one-sixth of the country's population over massive theft of the aid. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

U.S. says it’s horrified by conditions in Ethiopia after theft leads to food aid pause and deaths

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A worker walks next to a pile of sacks of food earmarked for the Tigray and Afar regions in a warehouse of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Semera, the regional capital for the Afar region, in Semera, Ethiopia, Feb. 21, 2022. The United Nations food relief agency has suspended aid deliveries to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region amid an internal investigation into the theft of food meant for hungry people, according to four humanitarian workers. (AP Photo, File)

U.S. joins U.N. in suspending food aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray

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A worker at a power plant, tries to repair damages after a Russian attack in central Ukraine, Jan. 5, 2023. The Biden administration will provide $125 million for parts and other supplies to help repair crews in Ukraine keep up with Russian strikes pounding the country’s electrical system. U.S. international development aid chief Samantha Power announced the funding in a statement Wednesday. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

U.S. to help Ukraine repair power grid after Russian strikes

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President Biden speaks with members of the press before leaving Washington for a weekend at his home in Delaware. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

House Republicans see ‘obstruction’ in Biden administration’s freeze-out of Afghan watchdog

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

USAID Administrator Samantha Power in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, traveled to Kyiv to hold meetings with government officials and residents. She said the U.S. would provide an additional $55 million to repair heating pipes and other equipment. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, Pool)

Live Updates: Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this June 10, 2014, file photo, John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa hearing on Examining U.S. Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan. With Washington set to send billions of dollars in fresh aid to Afghanistan despite the military drawdown, Sopko says its not too late to address the fraud and mismanagement that has bedeviled the 14-year effort to rebuild the country. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) **FILE**

Afghan IG claims State Department stonewalled over probe into Kabul government collapse

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A porter pushes a wheelbarrow carrying an elderly Afghan woman with her family as they enter into Pakistan from Afghanistan at a border crossing, in Chaman, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. Chaman, is a key border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, normally thousands of Afghans and Pakistanis cross daily and a steady stream of trucks passes through, taking goods to Afghanistan. (AP Photo)

Biden snared in a diplomatic dilemma over Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2019 file photo, charred trucks that were part of a humanitarian aid convoy attempting to cross into Venezuela sit parked on the Francisco de Paula Santander international bridge in Cucuta, Colombia. A new report published on April 16, 2021, by the inspector general at the U.S. Agency for International Development said the deployment of the aid was driven in part to the U.S.' pursuit of regime change rather than just technical analysis of the needs and best ways to help struggling Venezuelans. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Watchdog: US aid to Venezuela driven by more than just need

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

USAID official fired after anti-LGBTQ social media posts

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

In this May 2, 2017, file photo, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

New USAID adviser sparks furor over past anti-Islam comments

By MARIAM FAM and ELANA SCHOR - Associated Press

A member of the Iranian army walks past rows of beds at a temporary 2,000-bed hospital for COVID-19 coronavirus patients set up by the army at the international exhibition center in northern Tehran, Iran, on Thursday, March 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran’s army sets up hospital in capital as virus toll climbs

By AMIR VAHDAT and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

A street musician sings and plays music on an empty lane in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, March 26, 2020. Iran is battling the worst new coronavirus outbreak in the region and authorities have advised people to stay at home and trying to enforce new policy imposing the kinds of lockdowns when the country spending the new year holidays. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Curfews extended as USAID declares aid suspension in Yemen

By SARAH EL DEEB and MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Illustration on defense against the spread of the new coronavirus by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

American foreign aid programs best defense against coronavirus

By Andrew Natsios

US to stop aid in Yemen’s Houthi areas if rebels don’t budge

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Trump sending aid mission to Bolivia ahead of election

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence is being criticized for his office's funding of federal aid to several Christian groups, particularly those in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Mike Pence defends federal aid funneling to Christian groups

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, July 16, 2019, file photo, health workers wearing protective gear begin their shift at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo. On July 17, the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak an international emergency after it spread to eastern Congo's biggest city, Goma. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

USAID offers nearly $40M more for Ebola fight

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno, right, decorates soccer star Antonio Valencia with a National Order of Merit, in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, May 14, 2019. The Ecuadorian's final game with Manchester United was Sunday, after 10 seasons with the team. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Correction: Ecuador-US story

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FILE - In this June 4, 2008 file photo, Palestinians unload bags of flour donated by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, at a depot in the West Bank village of Anin near Jenin. Tens of thousands of Palestinians are no longer getting food aid or health services from America after the Trump administration’s decision in 2018 to cut more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinians. Before the aid cuts were announced, it provided food aid -- branded as a gift from the American people -- to more than 180,000 Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza on behalf of the World Food Program. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas, File)

US aid cuts hit Palestinians, further dimming hope for peace

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press