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 was great to see many of you in New York last week at Devex Impact House, or elsewhere amid the chaos of the U.N. General Assembly. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect heading into UNGA this year, given the earth-shaking eight months that preceded this gathering of global development devotees. There are two words I would use to describe what I saw and heard: grief and practicality.
In my UNGA experience, few in the development community were trying to paper over the unprecedented turmoil that has resulted from the Trump administration’s aid freeze, cuts, and animosity.