This is a special Saturday edition of Devex Pro Insider from Senior Reporter Michael Igoe. For the next few months, this newsletter will tackle some of the biggest questions about the future of U.S. foreign aid, with insider reporting and analysis delivered straight to your inbox.
It took six months for President Donald Trump’s administration to break the U.S. foreign aid system. They have about eight weeks to put it back together.
So much of the development community’s attention has focused — understandably — on everything that has been cut: the project terminations, the entire budgetary line items deemed expendable, the staggering loss of professional talent and expertise, the abrupt severance of relationships and trust. But on the other side of those massive disruptions, there is another looming challenge: What to do about everything that still remains.