The Second Trump Administration and Development: The First 100 Days

Janeen Madan Keller responds to the Trump Administration's Decision to Cut Funding to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

Last week, we published an estimate of cuts to USAID programs at the sectoral level based on two leaked documents covering cancelled and retained awards. Since then, a new version of the terminated and retained awards list was shared with Congress. Using that updated list, we revise our earlier sect...

According to a recently leaked document, the Trump administration is considering reorganizing the US foreign assistance architecture, with an eye to merging MCC, DFC, and USTDA.

The State Department is floating foreign assistance reorganization proposals. While there is surely a lot that could be done to make US foreign assistance more effective, I hope Congress focuses on the far more urgent task of ensuring the foreign assistance funding it has already appropriated can be...