Elissa Miolene
Global Development Reporter at Devex
global development reporter @devex | words also in @WSJ @sfchronicle @mercnews | former UN & humanitarian comms | @stanfordjourn alum | [email protected]
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1 week ago |
devex.com | Elissa Miolene
Jeremy Lewin — a 28-year-old tech entrepreneur with no government experience — has just added another title to résumé: acting director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance. It’s one of several roles Lewin has taken on since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. First, he joined the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the budget-slashing office run by billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk.
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1 week ago |
devex.com | Elissa Miolene
Jeremy Lewin — a 28-year-old tech entrepreneur with no government experience — has just added another title to résumé: acting director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance. It’s one of several roles Lewin has taken on since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. First, he joined the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the budget-slashing office run by billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk.
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1 week ago |
devex.com | Elissa Miolene
The Trump administration’s latest plan for the U.S. State Department would cut the agency’s funding by nearly half, according to an internal memo — and would reduce foreign assistance funding alone by $21.5 billion, or 56%. The State Department has subsumed the little that’s left of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which was once a $40 billion agency. But with this new proposal, U.S. foreign assistance would face sharper cuts still.
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1 week ago |
devex.com | Elissa Miolene
Just over a year ago, a World Central Kitchen employee sent an email to those at the organization’s helm. Urgent, his email was titled. Personnel safety concerns. It was early March — less than a month before the Israel Defense Forces killed seven of the nonprofit’s staff. “I have first hand witnessed this organization disregard safety many times in the past,” wrote Brack Watters, a distribution operations manager who’d deployed with WCK to Ukraine, Turkey, Haiti, and beyond.
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1 week ago |
devex.com | Elissa Miolene
Four Democratic lawmakers have objected to the latest plans for USAID. In a letter to the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the members of Congress cited “serious concerns” about the legal, financial, and national security risks of a blueprint presented to the U.S. Congress.
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