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.