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'Radical change': Inside Trump's State Department takeover of USAID

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State Department hosted a "listening session" hosted by Pete Marocco , tasked with dismantling USAID earlier this month .

The meeting was "deeply uncomfortable," according to multiple people who were in the room.

After the Pledge of Allegiance, he outlined the Trump administration's foreign aid plans.

He said some areas of foreign aid required "radical change" before taking questions.

U.S. foreign assistance funding has been suspended for 90 days .

USAID has terminated more than 750 foreign assistance-funded grants and contracts of its own.

The State Department has suspended nearly 7,000 more foreign aid contracts, USAID says.

The White House is reviewing foreign assistance programs for alignment with President Trump 's foreign policy.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali issued a temporary restraining order halting the freeze.

Aid groups say their funding remains locked, leaving them scrambling to keep operations afloat.

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