A federal judge has blocked the White House’s attempt to dissolve the U.S. African Development Foundation, a congressionally established agency that supports small enterprises on the African continent.
The final rule comes after a year of tangling with the Trump administration, which ordered USADF to be "eliminated to the maximum extent" possible by law in February of 2025. In the days that followed, President Donald Trump appointed Peter Marocco, then-acting deputy administrator of USAID, as acting chair of USADF’s board.
USADF staff will be allowed into their offices on Wednesday for the first time in months, a person familiar with the case told Devex. But after a year of foreign aid freezes, program cancellations — and most recently, corruption charges — USADF’s reentry into the aid sector seems to be just beginning.