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Executive Order 14169, titled Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid, is an executive order signed by U.S. president Donald Trump hours after he took office 20 January 2025 ordering a 90-day pause on all U.S. foreign development assistance programs in order to conduct a review.
On January 27, 2025, memo M-25-13 was released by Matthew J. Vaeth – acting director for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). [1] [2] The memo said that the federal government of the United States in fiscal year 2024 spent over $3 trillion in federal "financial assistance, such as grants and loans", criticized the usage of "resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and ...
The extent of the impacts of the Trump administration’s sudden 90-day freeze of almost all foreign aid is still unclear almost a week on, as officials and aid workers overseas try to make sense ...
The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development are the main agencies that oversee foreign assistance, which Trump paused for 90 days to review if every grant and dollar aligns ...
The leaders made this assumption because immediately stopping aid ― and demanding that organizations receiving that aid stop any operations funded with the U.S. dollars ― could have ...
In fiscal year 2020 (October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020), the US government allocated $51.05 billion US dollars in economic and military assistance to foreign countries. Of this total, $39.41 billion was spent on economic assistance, $25.64 billion of which was dispersed by USAID.
The U.S. is by far the biggest contributor to global humanitarian aid, supplying an estimated $13.9 billion in 2024, accounting for 42% of all aid tracked by the United Nations.
World Food Program gave the largest UN aid to Afghanistan which amounted to $280,000,000 in fiscal year 2024. [4] Other UN agencies gave lesser amounts. According to a March 2024 publication by ProPublica based on a SIGAR report, the U.N. handed over $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan since the Taliban arrived at the helm in August 2021. [5]