The first week of United States President Donald Trump’s second term has provided plenty for the U.S. development community to talk about. By many accounts, too much.
Trump is setting a record-breaking pace for executive orders, having issued more in the first days of his presidency than any other president in U.S. history, David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, told a Devex Pro Live audience on Wednesday.
Several of those executive orders have aimed at U.S. global development engagement — initiating U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement; stamping out diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility programs and personnel; and imposing a 90-day freeze on U.S. foreign assistance spending while the White House undertakes an “America First”-focused review.