USAID Dismantled

🔴 Abuse of Power · Jan 24, 2025

Summary

The Trump administration dismantled USAID, the world’s largest humanitarian aid agency, beginning January 24, 2025 with a stop-work order, then permanently cancelled 83% of global contracts. USAID’s programs had previously prevented 92 million deaths between 2001 and 2021 including 30 million children. HIV clinics closed in South Africa; tuberculosis and malaria programs terminated across sub-Saharan Africa; food aid in Yemen, DRC, Syria, and Ethiopia halted. A July 2025 Lancet study projected 8-19 million additional preventable deaths by 2030 if cuts are maintained, a central estimate of 14 million, including 4.5 million children. The agency was formally closed July 1, 2025. The dismantling violated the Impoundment Control Act.