Trump Administration

USAID

Inside the Destruction of the Aid Agency

Series

10 stories published since 2025

Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis

by Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester, photography by Brian Otieno for ProPublica

December 17, 2025, 5:30 am EST
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy, photography by Peter DiCampo

December 15, 2025, 5:30 am EST
Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations

by Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester

May 28, 2025, 2:45 pm EDT
Tổng thống Trump đã dừng hoạt động xử lý chất độc da cam. Việc làm này khiến cho hàng trăm nghìn người gặp nguy cơ bị nhiễm độc.

by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy, ProPublica, and Le Van for ProPublica

March 19, 2025, 12:00 pm EDT
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.

by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy, ProPublica, and Le Van for ProPublica

March 17, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency

by Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester

March 3, 2025, 5:00 pm EST
The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.

by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy

March 1, 2025, 4:00 pm EST
Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy

by Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester

February 15, 2025, 9:00 pm EST
In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law

by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy

February 9, 2025, 1:15 pm EST
“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.

by Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester

January 31, 2025, 3:00 pm EST