In a bipartisan rebuke of the Trump administration's approach to foreign assistance, the House passed an $8 billion Ukraine security aid package with 18 Republicans breaking from party leadership to support military loans, reconstruction funding, and new sanctions targeting Russia's energy and financial sectors, The Washington Post reports.

When the Trump administration dismantled USAID in early 2025, it also took down the public archive documenting decades of U.S. global health achievements — leaving many without baseline data. Think Global Health reports that former USAID officials have launched an interactive tool recovering fiscal year 2019–2023 data.

In this opinion, Nicholas Kristof argues that the dismantling of USAID and the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO have directly worsened the current Ebola outbreak by eliminating early-warning infrastructure, expert presence in the DRC, and disease preparedness planning.

U.S. funding cuts to UNFPA-supported maternity services in northeastern Central African Republic are forcing overwhelmed clinics to reduce staffing and cut outreach, Al Jazeera reports.

A new report found that global wildfire activity in 2025 was among the lowest of the past two decades by area burned, yet devastating fires still caused major human and economic losses. Researchers also warn that USAID cuts are threatening key disaster datasets used for wildfire monitoring and early warning systems.

Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman argues in Foreign Affairs that while the Trump administration's dismantling of USAID has been deeply damaging, the development sector can still make progress by pivoting toward investment in local capacity and self-reliance.

As the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa surpasses 1,000 suspected and confirmed cases, NPR reports that the dismantling of USAID has left the U.S. significantly less equipped to contain the crisis. A former USAID acting assistant administrator for global health warns that America's capacity to stop this outbreak, or future ones, is far weaker than it once was.

The Trump administration defunded war crimes accountability programs in Ukraine, leaving investigators understaffed, evidence archives suspended, and prosecutors without support, Reuters reports.

One year after Trump dismantled USAID, the Caribbean is still grappling with the collapse of agricultural programs that helped smallholder farmers, built climate resilience, and strengthened food security across a region where 42% of the population is food insecure. Forbes reports that closed programs significantly reduced community resilience when Hurricane Melissa struck in 2025.

EM-DAT — a 30-year-old database of more than 27,000 natural and technological disasters relied upon by climate scientists, governments, and humanitarian organizations worldwide — faces closure after Trump's dismantling of USAID eliminated the 90% of its funding that came from the agency, Carbon Brief reports.

Bloomberg reports that clinics in flood-hit Mozambique are still contending with the fallout from last year's abrupt U.S. aid cuts, which forced layoffs of community health workers and disrupted disease surveillance, even as the Trump administration pursues a new bilateral health deal framework intended to replace the aid it dismantled.

As simultaneous Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks test U.S. preparedness, CBS highlights how cuts to the CDC, HHS, and USAID have hollowed out the outbreak detection and response infrastructure needed to contain them — including disease surveillance systems in the DRC.

U.S. cuts to global aid have gutted community health programs across South Africa, leaving clinics like Johannesburg's We Care with a fraction of their former workforce and fewer health workers available to support low-income people living with HIV and AIDS, NPR reports.

As outgoing World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain steps down, she warns PBS NewsHour that U.S. aid cuts, compounded by global funding reductions and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, have left the WFP able to cover less than half of what the world needs, with more than 315 million people now facing acute hunger, more than double the 2019 figure.

Writing for Inkstick, Friends Committee on National Legislation’s Priya Moran argues as FY27 appropriations get underway Congress still has the opportunity to reverse course and reinvest in the life-saving, cost-effective foreign aid and peacebuilding programs that advance both American values and national security.

The Trump administration's foreign aid freeze abruptly halted decades-long war-legacy programs in Vietnam eroding Vietnamese trust in U.S. reliability and prompting Hanoi to accelerate its diversification toward China and other partners, the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs reports.

As the world grapples with the first major disease outbreak since the U.S. gutted its global health support, experts warn the loss of funding, personnel, and coordination capacity has disrupted contact tracing, delayed detection, and left partner organizations scrambling to cover gaps the U.S. once filled, The Hill reports.

Save the Children US President and CEO Janti Soeripto tells Al-Monitor that the loss of roughly 80–85% of the organization's USAID-funded programs has left her organization serving only three of the 18 most underserved localities in northern Darfur.