Trump Ends USAID Grants

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DOGE’s Foreign Aid Cuts Have Sparked ‘Total Chaos’ Around the World

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The Donald Trump administration abruptly announced it would end nearly 10,000 contracts and grants from the US State Department and USAID .

The cuts have undermined years of global democracy-building and free speech initiatives and put the lives and livelihoods of their staff around the world at risk.

It's not clear how the Trump administration determined which grants and organizations would be spared.

The cuts represent about 20 percent of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism’s budget, or about half a million dollars .

Organizations working in high-risk countries are required to submit to background checks on their staff and contractors that are verified against US law enforcement databases.

Some nonprofit workers who spoke to WIRED said they feared that the cost-cutting group would be able to review—and share—sensitive information they had provided to the US as a condition of receiving foreign aid funding.

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