The Trump administration is reorganizing foreign aid at a fraction of its former size after dismantling USAID, a move critics say has cost millions of lives.
The State Department announced on Friday that crisis relief aid is being consolidated under a new Disaster and Humanitarian Response bureau with a direct-hire staff of more than 200 people, according to senior officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to brief reporters.
That’s about a third of the equivalent number of people who worked on humanitarian assistance for the now defunct agency, known as the US Agency for International Development, which President ...