1 day ago · Melania and Ivanka Trump toured Africa to promote USAID programs. "We care," Melania Trump declared in 2018 during a visit to Egypt as first lady to promote her partnership with the U.S. Agency ...

23 hours ago · Meanwhile, USAID was one of the first agencies to name an ambassador to Melania Trump's Be Best initiative. When Melania Trump first announced her signature program in May 2018, she asked ...

1 day ago · According to USAID documents, Ivanka Trump used over $11,000 from the department in 2019 to buy video recording and reproducing equipment for a White House event.

9 hours ago · In just two weeks, the Trump Administration has gutted USAID — the U.S. Agency for International Development — the government agency overseeing global efforts to improve health and education ...

2 days ago · Similarly, Trump on Sunday said that USAID was being run by “radical lunatics.” The future of USAID was also a key focus of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative policy blueprint.

4 days ago · What’s going on with USAID? On his first day in office Jan. 20, Trump implemented a 90-day freeze on foreign assistance. Four days later, Peter Marocco — a returning political appointee from Trump’s first term — drafted a tougher than expected interpretation of that order, a move that shut down thousands of programs around the world and forced furloughs and layoffs.

1 day ago · Sources have also expressed fears about the impact of Trump and Musk’s demonizing rhetoric against USAID and its employees. More broadly, USAID officials around the world are rushing to figure ...

4 days ago · Learn more about what USAID is and how it works after Department of Government Efficiency leader Musk says he and Trump are hoping to shut down the federal agency.

2 days ago · The Trump administration is putting all staff at the United States Agency for International Development on administrative leave as of 11:59 p.m. on Friday, according to a new directive sent to all ...

Oct 6, 2018 · First Lady Melania Trump landed in Cairo, Egypt on Saturday Morning. Entissar Amer, the First Lady of the Arab Republic of Egypt and Thomas Goldberger, the Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy to Egypt, greeted Mrs. Trump.