Foreign Assistance: Agencies Made Broad Changes, but State Lacked Guidance for Decisions
What GAO Found In response to multiple executive orders issued beginning in January 2025, selected agencies have made changes, some significant, to their foreign assistance programming and staffing. Eight of the nine agencies included in GAO’s review decreased funding (e.g., obligations) for foreign assistance awards. One agency did not decrease the number of awards but has been unable to disburse funds to awardees since January 2025. Most notably, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) terminated approximately 6,780 of 7,510 awards between January 2025 and March 2026, according to State data. The value of obligations of the terminated awards from their beginning until March..
Reported by Maria LopezForeign Assistance: Agencies Made Broad Changes, but State Lacked Guidance for Decisions.
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What GAO Found In response to multiple executive orders issued beginning in January 2025, selected agencies have made changes, some significant, to their foreign assistance programming and staffing.
Eight of the nine agencies included in GAO’s review decreased funding (e.g., obligations) for foreign assistance awards.
One agency did not decrease the number of awards but has been unable to disburse funds to awardees since January 2025.
Most notably, the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID) terminated approximately 6,780 of 7,510 awards between January 2025 and March 2026, according to State data.
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