When President Donald Trump moved to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development, most organizations were terrified.
It wasn’t clear whether speaking out against the administration would mean losing what little funding there was left — and day after day, many remained silent while the aid industry crumbled.
But by early February, a handful of those affected broke rank. And soon enough, what began as a handful of emergency filings spiraled into a web of legal tests against the administration’s foreign assistance agenda.
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Elissa Miolene
Elissa Miolene reports on USAID and the U.S. government at Devex. She previously covered education at The San Jose Mercury News, and has written for outlets like The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian magazine, among others. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for humanitarian agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia.
