Michael Igoe
Senior Reporter at Devex
Reporting on the politics of global development @devex. Send me tips! michael dot igoe at https://t.co/VJi8ec6Nuc
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Jan 24, 2025 |
devex.com | Michael Igoe
The top Democrats on two congressional committees overseeing U.S. foreign aid spending wrote to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday urging him to resume funding for ongoing U.S. foreign assistance programs. Their letter comes in the wake of a cable from the State Department — first reported by Devex — that orders both new and current foreign aid programs to grind to a halt.
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Jan 24, 2025 |
devex.com | Michael Igoe
The executive order puts a pause on new foreign aid spending, as well as a stop-work order for existing grants and contracts. The newly installed director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance sent a global cable Friday that orders an immediate pause on new foreign aid spending, as well as a stop-work order for existing grants and contracts.
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Jan 24, 2025 |
devex.com | Michael Igoe
U.S. President Donald Trump has taken direct aim at U.S. global development engagement in the first days of his presidency. In this Devex Pro Live event, experts break down what it means — and what we still don’t know. The first week of United States President Donald Trump’s second term has provided plenty for the U.S. development community to talk about. By many accounts, too much.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
devex.com | Michael Igoe
U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility programs across the U.S. government includes orders for USAID officials to report attempts by their peers to conceal these efforts by rewording contract language or job descriptions.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
devex.com | Michael Igoe
Within hours of taking office, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 90-day freeze on U.S. foreign assistance funding and alleged that the “foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests.”Within hours of taking office, United States President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on foreign assistance spending during which the new administration will review aid programs to decide what should stay and what should go.
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Hearing that Trump is about to double down on the constitutional crisis. A President cannot eliminate an appropriated federal agency by executive order. That’s what a despot - who wants to steal the taxpayers money to enrich his billionaire cabal - does. Watch USAID tonight.
RT @sarajerving: In a Saturday memo, USAID staffers were given more details on the "complete halt" in foreign assistance and told "every pr…
RT @devex: JOIN US TODAY at 12 p.m. ET for a rapid-response briefing on the new US directive that freezes foreign aid spending & halts work…
