The First Trump Administration and Development

CGD experts closely monitored what the change in leadership in the United States meant for US development policy. This series contains detailed analysis of the first Trump administration’s actions.

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Rex Tillerson’s Hearings before Congress: What Was Said and What CGD Experts Think

June 14, 2017
Here, CGD experts Amanda Glassman, Scott Morris, and Jeremy Konyndyk weigh in on some of the key points we heard (and live tweeted) during Secretary Tillerson’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and, later, when he answered questions from the Senate Appropriations Subcomm...
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Get Up to Speed on What President Trump’s Budget Would Mean for Foreign Aid

May 31, 2017
The White House delivered an FY2018 budget request, featuring deep spending reductions, to a less-than-receptive Congress early last week. In a series of blog posts, CGD experts sounded off on the proposed cuts to foreign aid and the philosophy that seems to guide them—including the administra...
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Leaving the Paris Climate Agreement Would Be a Shameful Act of Self-Harm

May 31, 2017
A decision by President Trump to remove the United States from the 2015 Paris climate agreement would be a shameful act of self-harm. The decision would hurt everyone in the world, and poor people most, by making it harder to avoid a future of bigger storms and fires, disappearing coastlin...