The Trump administration cut the US Agency for International Development’s workforce to the bone on Thursday Feb. 6, reducing the embattled agency’s global staff from 10,000 people down to less than 300.
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Mom shoots 4 young daughters, killing 3, before turning gun on herself in horrifying murder-suicide — as husband defends her in shocking statement“That’s what keeps me up at night,” said Matthew Soerens, World Relief’s vice president of advocacy and policy. World Relief received a waiver to continue its lifesaving work in one country — civil-war-torn Sudan — but it is still waiting on government payments for those programs and previously completed work.
Samaritan’s Purse has not stopped its emergency food and medical programs overseas, he noted, and less than 5% of the organization’s 2024 funding came from government grants. Supporters of USAID’s work argue it not only alleviates global suffering and promotes stability but also functions as a form of soft power to create goodwill and counter rivals like China and Russia.
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