The New York Times

‘We Are Seeing Complete Destruction’: The Damage Done by the U.S.A.I.D. Freeze

Mr. Konyndyk is the president of Refugees International and a former U.S.A.I.D. official in the Obama and Biden administrations. When President John F. Kennedy asked Congress to establish the U.S.
America Magazine

U.S.A.I.D. changed my life. It is heart-wrenching to watch Trump try to destroy it.

Flowers and a sign are seen outside the headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development on Feb. 7 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file) Amid the sweeping changes made by the ...
The New York Times

The U.S.A.I.D. Chaos Already Has Dire Effects

President Trump and Elon Musk were entirely right that America’s aid programs merited scrutiny and reform. Yet so far what these two billionaires have achieved is to crush the world’s poorest children ...
America Magazine

No waivers for Catholic relief efforts: The devastating impacts of the end of U.S.A.I.D.

Many heads of humanitarian relief and development agencies once supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development have followed a simple strategy since President Donald Trump’s inauguration: ...
The New Yorker

Growing Up U.S.A.I.D.

Even by the standards of the new Administration, the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development has been unusually vitriolic. Donald Trump, seeming offended by the mere idea of ...
The New Yorker

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

It was January, my final week in the outgoing Administration. In a few days, Donald Trump would be inaugurated as President. I had come to the United States Agency for International Development in ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Opinion: ‘We are seeing complete destruction’: The damage done by the U.S.A.I.D. freeze

When President John F. Kennedy asked Congress to establish the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1961, he rooted its mission in America’s strategic interests and its “moral obligations as a ...