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Voices: It is deluded to slash foreign aid in refugee hotspots without expecting more boats to arrive

COMMENT: Prevention is always better than cure, writes Sarah Champion, so investing in ways for people to feel secure and earn a living in their home country through aid is important

The Independent UK

White House rescission strategy worries some GOP appropriators - Roll Call

Key House GOP appropriators are raising concern about the White House’s use of an untested budgetary tool to end some foreign aid funds.

Roll Call

US supreme court clears way for Trump to withhold $5bn in foreign aid

Trump had stopped foreign aid funds by use of ‘pocket rescission’; aid groups now have until Friday to respond

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Supreme Court lets Trump freeze $4 billion in foreign aid, for now

The order is not the final decision on the matter, but it means the money remains frozen pending the outcome of the Trump administration's appeal.

Axios

US Supreme Court paves way for Trump to cut $4bn in foreign aid

Emergency stay granted by court one day after government requests it be allowed to ignore lower court order.

Al Jazeera

Supreme Court for now allows US to hold funds it wants to rescind - Roll Call

The Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily allowed the Trump administration to hold on to billions in foreign aid funds that it wants to cancel.

Roll Call

Voices: A post-foreign aid world needs to be built on transformational tax and trade policies

COMMENT: As traditional donors like the US and UK cut back, the answer for Africa and the Global South is not in charity, but in a fundamental restructuring of how the world economy is organised, writes Fadhel Kaboub

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Trump appeals foreign aid freeze to Supreme Court

It follows a federal judge ordering the admin to release the billions approved by Congress.

Axios

Trump gets big Supreme Court win and is allowed to freeze billions in foreign aid — for now

Government lawyers claimed unfreezing aid poses ‘grave and urgent threat’ to the presidency

The Independent UK

Trump asks Supreme Court to let it cut billions in foreign aid

Request comes after an appeals court orders Trump to distribute the congressionally approved funds.

Al Jazeera

US asks Supreme Court to allow halt on some foreign aid spending - Roll Call

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow the government to not make about $4 billion in foreign aid payments.

Roll Call

Maryland screwworm case has US officials bracing for return of an old foe

Rise in cases south of the border prompts concern over US livestock as Trump budget cuts hit research and foreign aid

The Guardian - US

Sen. Andy Kim, former USAID intern, reflects on seismic shifts in U.S. foreign policy - Roll Call

The New Jersey Democrat says he strongly rejects the Trump administration’s argument that foreign aid doesn’t serve U.S. interests.

Roll Call

Judge blocks Trump’s bid to cut $4bn in US foreign aid

Federal judge says Trump administration cannot refuse to spend funds appropriated by US Congress.

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‘Breaking new ground’: Trump’s $5 billion funding grab splits GOP as government shutdown looms at month’s end

Trump claws back $5 billion in foreign aid Congress already approved.

Roll Call

'Pocket rescission' showdown - Roll Call

Democrats are warning that Republicans risk a partial government shutdown next month if they don’t resist President Donald Trump’s plan to claw back $4.9 billion in foreign aid through a so-called pocket rescission. CQ Roll Call’s Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman explain how the White House push to cancel…

International Business Times

Trump Moves To Cut More Foreign Aid, Risking Shutdown

US President Donald Trump has moved to cut nearly $5 billion of congressionally-approved foreign aid, the White House said Friday -- raising the likelihood of a federal shutdown as Democrats oppose the policy.

The Independent UK

‘Secretary of Everything’ Marco Rubio hands control of what’s left of USAID to Project 2025 co-author

Members of Congress blast Russell Vought for trying to claw back $5 billion from embattled foreign aid agency

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Al Jazeera

Trump seeks to cut $5bn in congressionally approved foreign aid

White House seeks to run out clock on funding after already slashing billions in aid in move decried as overreach.

The Independent UK

Trump's administration again appeals to the Supreme Court over his foreign aid funding freeze

President Donald Trump's administration is appealing to the Supreme Court again in its bid to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid funding frozen

The Independent UK

USAID is holding a fire sale to get rid of all the equipment it planned to use on the 5,000-plus projects Trump canceled

Millions of dollars in equipment has been sold, redistributed, abandoned, or lost after Trump administration guts foreign aid agency

The Independent UK

Photos show Nigeria’s maternal crisis as militants return and US aid dries up

In Nigeria, more women die giving birth than anywhere else in the world. In the country’s northeast, the risks are rising as Boko Haram resurges and U.S. foreign aid dries up. Chronic underfunding leaves Africa’s most populous nation with one of the world’s deadliest maternal mortality rates.

The Independent UK

South Africa's most vulnerable struggle to find HIV medication after US aid cuts

Sex workers and transgender people are among South Africa's most vulnerable populations after the Trump administration slashed U.S. foreign aid and U.S.-funded health clinics dispensing HIV medication shut down

The Independent UK

Voices: How long can Keir Starmer get away with his delusional foreign aid policy?

INSIDE WESTMINSTER: While the prime minister has excelled in some areas of foreign policy, he has a less than impressive record when it comes to aid, writes Andrew Grice

Radio France Internationale

Southern African leaders meet in Madagascar to chart path for self-reliance

Southern African leaders are meeting in Madagascar to decide how to make the region more self-reliant and less vulnerable to global economic shocks after years of instability and falling foreign aid.

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