I’ve been thinking about the Trump administration lately — well, assuming you count “lately” as just about every minute for the better part of a decade. But lately, while the world’s attention has been justifiably transfixed on the Middle East, there have been some quiet but interesting moves related to the administration’s development approach.
A year after U.S. President Donald Trump took a wrecking ball to USAID (I got tired of saying wood chipper), we find ourselves in a still-uncertain but deeply intriguing era of U.S. foreign assistance — with winners and losers emerging every week.
NGOs have largely found themselves on the losing end of Trump's return to power. That streak includes the bilateral health compacts that the State Department has signed with a slew of countries — agreements largely predicated on government-to-government cooperation.