Trump admin quietly reinstated some $80m in USAID funds for Gazan aid, official says “It’s very Trump,” Enia Krivine, of FDD, told JNS. “He starts his negotiation with a very strong opening gesture, and then he works backwards from there.” Mike Wagenheim April 1, 2025
Trump releases some foreign aid, including to USAID, Red Cross Most of the released funds—more than $4.1 billion—were reportedly connected to programs involving overseas arms sales and military assistance, or to Trump's efforts to regain control of the U.S. border. JNS Staff Feb. 23, 2025
Trump aid freeze said to affect all funding for PA forces A scheduled meeting between U.S. and P.A. officials to discuss the latter's counter-terror operation in Jenin has also been postponed. Akiva Van Koningsveld Feb. 20, 2025
Foreign funding of judicial-reform protests spurs Knesset legislation The current debate swirls around the NGO Blue and White Future, which was heavily backed by non-Israeli sources. David Isaac Feb. 18, 2025
The dismantling of a malevolent empire USAID is only one outpost of a corrupted humanitarian establishment. Melanie Phillips Feb. 13, 2025
Report prompts allegations of ‘vast’ USAID funds for Hamas “The full story of funding Hamas is vast, and much of it was done in secret,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz wrote about an exposé maintaining the aid agency financed terrorism. Canaan Lidor Feb. 12, 2025
USAID sent over $18 billion to Islamic terror states Why the agency is a national security threat. Daniel Greenfield Feb. 10, 2025
‘Radical lunatics’: Rubio named acting USAID head U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that he delegated USAID authority to a colleague, “but I stay in touch with him.” JNS Staff Feb. 3, 2025
USAID was a political agent for anti-Israel diplomacy The agency not only ignored but actively sought to undermine any acknowledgement of the right of Jews to live in their historic homeland. Yisrael Medad Feb. 3, 2025
