10 entries in the ledger
A Government Accountability Office report released in early October 2026 found the State Department canceled roughly 4,300 foreign assistance awards -- about 25% of its portfolio, worth nearly $3 billion -- as of March...
The State Department notified Congress in September 2026 that it would redirect $52 million in security assistance originally designated for Slovakia, North Macedonia, Tunisia and Iraq -- funds appropriated to help...
Reuters reported Aug. 31 that the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor plans to spend $4 million to bolster right-wing media in Europe, citing four people familiar with the funding. Three...
The State Department approved a $5 million payment to Liberia in December in connection with the arrangement to send third-country deportees there, according to internal documents reviewed by the New York Times...
The State Department pledged $1 billion in security assistance to Colombia on Aug. 7, hours after Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as president, according to BBC News. In his first speech de la Espriella promised an...
In late August 2025, the administration employed a "pocket rescission," a late-fiscal-year funding proposal timed so that Congress would have no opportunity to act before the fiscal year ended, to withhold approximately...
Congress enacted a rescissions package that formally canceled previously appropriated federal funding, including money for foreign assistance programs and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The law converted...
The administration formally closed USAID's independent operations, following months of program terminations, staff reductions, and the transfer of selected remaining functions to the State Department. The closure...
DOGE personnel and administration officials locked USAID employees out of agency systems, froze programs and moved to place most staff on leave, while officials proposed absorbing the agency into the State Department...
On his first day in office, Trump signed Executive Order 14169, pausing most new U.S. foreign-development assistance for 90 days pending a review of programs for alignment with administration policy. Stop-work orders...