Maany Peyvan is a writer and former White House senior policy adviser under President Joe Biden. He served as the head speechwriter and adviser to USAID Administrators Samantha Power and Rajiv Shah.

Today, however, that line of reasoning is failing. Trump, Musk, and their allies are convinced that administering foreign aid ...

What USAID does is not charity. While its actions almost always have humanitarian benefit, ultimately the agency is all about ...

Elon Musk joined President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday in his first appearance at the White House.

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The full story of funding Hamas is vast, and much of it was done in secret,” Sen. Ted Cruz wrote about an exposé maintaining the aid agency financed terrorism.

If the Trump administration succeeds in shutting down the federal United States Agency for International Development, known ...

US President Trump's suspension of USAID funding has disrupted global humanitarian and development efforts, opening doors for ...

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In the Cook Islands, traditionally bound to New Zealand and friendly with the United States, the prime minister has announced ...

Democrats look to the March 14 government funding deadline as the best opportunity to fight back against Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk.

I have dealt with USAID for nearly four decades now, and my overall impression has been akin to Longfellow’s description of ...