Trump Reorganizes Foreign Aid at Fraction of USAID’s Size (1)

March 20, 2026, 4:38 PM UTC

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 ...

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