Development and Humanitarian Assistance

From Central America to Sudan and Syria, our food aid, disaster relief, and development programs save lives while combatting global challenges like violent extremism, global health threats, forced migration, and fentanyl trafficking. The administration’s termination of these efforts has created a win for our adversaries, who are eagerly capitalizing on the vacuums left by America’s absence around the world. There are smarter, bipartisan ways to strengthen our foreign assistance programs.

Call on Congress to renew the U.S. government’s capacity to deliver foreign aid while supporting innovation in global development, increased mobilization of private capital, and greater reliance on locally led development and humanitarian responses

The Latest

In July 2025, the Trump administration moved all humanitarian and development assistance programs from USAID to the State Department, despite the lack of operational capacity within the State Department to effectively administer these programs. At the same time, the Trump administration proposed – and Congress approved – the cancellation of around $8 billion in foreign assistance funding previously appropriated by Congress. In September, the administration announced that it would unilaterally cancel another $4.9 billion in congressionally-approved foreign assistance through a “pocket rescission” that lawmakers from both parties have called unlawful.