A bipartisan bill allocates $50 billion for foreign aid spending in 2026, down from what was allocated in 2024 but billions more than what the Trump administration had signaled it would approve. After ...

One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It still has a long way to go. Furniture, files and equipment at a medical site ...

Foreign aid has long been a way for the United States and China to gain soft power and influence — providing public services in low-income countries that help them tackle poverty and disease, and ...

Nigeria has emerged as the third-largest recipient of US foreign aid in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new analysis by Cable Index. The report tracked disbursements across 20 African countries as ...

Last summer, the Dalai Lama was having a party in Dharamshala for his 90th birthday, and Bethany Morrison, a newly appointed State Department official, was eager to meet with him there. Inconveniently ...

Max was a Senior Research Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation. The Trump Administration has dismantled America’s multibillion-dollar foreign aid apparatus ...

Foreign aid spending is back in the U.S. government’s budget, after a year in which the Trump administration cut billions of dollars to global health and humanitarian assistance. On Tuesday evening, ...