The skinny on Trump’s very big first 100 days

U.S. President Donald Trump has been busy. In just 100 days, he’s managed to decapitate most of America’s foreign aid apparatus. More than 85% of USAID programming eliminated, the majority of its 10,000-strong workforce hollowed out, and the remaining rump set to be folded into the State Department, which itself is undergoing a massive restructuring and layoffs.

Basically, an entire decades-old agency is gone — poof, just like that.

How could this happen so fast, and what’s next? Devex reporters Adva Saldinger, Elissa Miolene, and David Ainsworth broke down the lightning-fast collapse of the U.S. Agency for International Development during a Devex Pro briefing on Tuesday, offering insights into what we know and what no one seems to know.

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