The Trump Administration and Development

CGD experts are closely monitoring what the change in leadership in the United States portends for US development policy. Watch this space for detailed analysis of the new administration’s actions.

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Trump’s Looming Aid Cuts Are Unwise—Are They Also Unconstitutional?
August 19, 2019
After seeing Congress repeatedly reject its proposals for drastic foreign aid cuts, the White House is once again making a late-breaking attempt to subvert Congressional budget intent. These measures are designed to look like good-faith steps to take stock of federal spending before the end of the f...
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Prospects for Prosper Africa: CGD Podcast
July 15, 2019
Landry Signé, Aubrey Hruby, Judd Devermont, and Gyude Moore on their expectations for the new Prosper Africa initiative and the roles that infrastructure, communication, and the US Development Finance Corporation might play in its impact.
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African Countries Should Stay Loyal to China’s Troubled Huawei—Regardless of Trump
May 30, 2019
Last week, the Trump administration’s move to limit Huawei’s access to American components brought the waves of the trade war ashore in ways that were perceptible to the most casual African observer of the China-Africa relationship.
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USDFC Monitor: Why Is the White House Scuttling its Biggest Development Win? Four Hidden Daggers Pointed at the Heart of the New USDFC
April 02, 2019
The BUILD Act is a remarkable bipartisan effort to modernize the US development finance toolkit. So why is the White House gutting the most important features of the new agency?
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With Budget Cuts Looming Again, Can PEPFAR Keep the Gas on its Acceleration Strategy?
March 19, 2019
PEPFAR has long enjoyed bipartisan support on the Hill. Yet, it has not been spared from significant cuts in President Trump’s latest budget request for foreign aid. It is noteworthy that this administration’s three successive budget requests have proposed increasingly large cu...
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Trump’s Foreign Assistance Budget Request, in 3 Charts
March 15, 2019
President Trump’s FY2020 budget request landed with a thud on Capitol Hill Monday. Once again, the administration is proposing deep cuts to the international affairs budget and, once again, members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have pledged to reject the proposed reductions in US developmen...
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The President Has Mostly Wiped out US Refugee Resettlement. Other Countries Aren’t Picking up the Slack.
February 05, 2019
The Trump administration has drastically cut US refugee admissions—effectively eliminating nearly half of the world’s total resettlement spots. New data analysis from Michael Clemens explores the implications of these policies.