Last month, Donald Trump’s administration issued a stop-work order to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which effectively means that the agency will halt most spending for the next three months. But what does that mean? How much aid funding is at risk?
A Devex analysis identified that during that time, billions of dollars in new funding would normally be allocated. We’ve looked at last year’s funding landscape to identify where the missing billions would have gone.
USAID regularly reports its figures to USASpending which show how much it spent in the fiscal year that ended in September 2024. That data shows it channels most of its money via two channels — assistance, which chiefly covers grants and cooperative agreements, and acquisition, which is mainly contracts. Collectively, these are known as A&A.