The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has recently become the target of Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts to slash government waste and spending, bringing increased scrutiny to the record of Samantha Power, the agency’s administrator during almost the entire Biden administration. Power, who previously served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017 in the ...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has recently become the target of Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts to slash government waste and spending, bringing increased scrutiny to the record of Samantha Power, the agency’s administrator during almost the entire Biden administration. Power, who previously served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017 in the ...

Staffers and contractors who work with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) were stunned and angered after President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – the government accountability unit headed by billionaire Elon Musk – effectively shut down the $40 billion agency on Monday. One USAID staffer who wished to remain anonymous told Fox News Digital that ...

Staffers and contractors who work with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) were stunned and angered after President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – the government accountability unit headed by billionaire Elon Musk – effectively shut down the $40 billion agency on Monday. One USAID staffer who wished to remain anonymous told Fox News Digital that ...

Republican spending hawks in the House of Representatives are pushing their leaders to include at least $2.5 trillion in spending cuts in a massive piece of legislation intended to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda. Republicans held their weekly closed-door agenda meeting on Wednesday where they discussed a path forward via the budget reconciliation process.  By lowering the threshold in the ...

Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst published a list of projects and programs she says the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has helped fund across the years, highlighting it as ‘wasteful and dangerous’ spending that has gripped taxpayers until the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) stepped in.  ‘From funneling tax dollars to risky research in Wuhan to sending Ukrainians to Paris ...

A House Oversight Committee hearing devolved into a fight over words on Wednesday after Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., repeatedly used a ‘slur’ to describe transgender people in a hearing on USAID funding. ‘USAID awarded $2 million to strengthen trans-led organizations to deliver gender-affirming health care in Guatemala,’ Mace said. ‘So to each of you this morning, does this advance the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Protesters rallying against the sweep of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) say that ending ‘corporate welfare’ should be prioritized over looking at money being reportedly funneled to terror-linked groups. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been conducting a review of ‘waste’ identified within USAID, the government agency that handles the distribution of foreign ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has outlined eight ‘Day 1 Priorities’ he aims to accomplish, several of which he laid out in his inaugural address at the Energy Department headquarters Wednesday.  Wright, the CEO of Colorado oilfield services company Liberty Energy, said he will prioritize refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), modernizing the U.S. nuclear stockpile, streamlining federal permitting for energy ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has outlined eight ‘Day 1 Priorities’ he aims to accomplish, several of which he laid out in his inaugural address at the Energy Department headquarters Wednesday.  Wright, the CEO of Colorado oilfield services company Liberty Energy, said he will prioritize refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), modernizing the U.S. nuclear stockpile, streamlining federal permitting for energy ...