Congress allocated $50 billion for initiatives aimed at supporting democracy, scholarship programs, U.S. embassy operations ...

International scholarships make up most of the foreign aid to higher education in conflict-affected countries.

The White House announced last January that waging war on the "foreign aid industry and bureaucracy" would be among its first orders of business. Unfortunately, many other rich-country governments are ...

Under Trump, foreign aid is no longer an ideal. It’s just a deal. Last summer, the Dalai Lama was having a party in Dharamshala for his 90th birthday, and Bethany Morrison, a newly appointed State ...

Three big points. First, foreign aid spending today is higher when measured in real (or inflation-adjusted) dollars than it was during much of the 1980s and 1990s. That is because foreign aid budgets ...

The White House is asking Congress to take back nearly $5 billion in appropriated foreign aid funds. The timing of the request makes it hard for Congress to weigh in before the end of the fiscal year.

One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It still has a long way to go. Furniture, files and equipment at a medical site ...

On January 20, 2025, an Executive Order titled “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” introduced a 90-day pause in foreign assistance programs pending review. 6 On January 24, ...

Max is a Senior Research Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation. The Trump Administration has dismantled America’s multibillion-dollar foreign aid apparatus that ...

In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that foreign aid groups that sued to recover funds that President Trump froze cannot challenge the decision. By Zach Montague Reporting from ...