Table 1: Timeline of Major Trump cuts to US foreign aid.
The White House, “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” (2025), https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/; Crowley and Wong, “Trump Administration Puts Dozens of U.S.A.I.D. Officials on Paid Leave”; State, “Emergency Humanitarian Waiver to Foreign Assistance Pause. Press Statement by Secretary of State”; Karoun Demirjian, Edward Wong, and Michael Crowley, “Trump Appointees to Put Almost All U.S.A.I.D. Workers on Leave,” New York Times, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/us/usaid-musk-trump-rubio-cuts.html; Aishvarya Kavi, “Rubio Blames ‘Insubordination’ for Changes at Aid Agency,” New York Times, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/03/us/trump-usaid-news/9830501b-8a42-50d9-9463-889fd03a7550.; Karoun Demirjian and Aishvarya Kavi, “Trump Administration to Lay Off Nearly All of U.S. Aid Agency’s Staff,” New York Times, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/politics/usaid-job-cuts.html; Karoun Demirjian and Stephanie Nolen, “U.S.A.I.D. Workers Brace for the Worst,” New York Times, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/politics/usaid-workers-trump.html; Amy Schoenfeld Walker and K.K. Rebecca Lai, “A Timeline of Cuts, Legal Orders and Chaos at U.S.A.I.D,” New York Times, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/05/us/politics/usaid-trump-timeline.html; Lee and Giorno, “Judge Temporarily Blocks Termination of USAID Contracts in Place before Trump Inauguration”; Karoun Demirjian et al., “Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Worldwide Despite Rubio’s Promise,” New York Times, February, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/us/politics/usaid-waivers-rubio.html; Brendan Pierson, “Non-Profits Ask Judge to Hold US Officials in Contempt for Defying Foreign Aid Order,” Reuters, 2025, https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-keeps-usaid-contracts-frozen-despite-court-order-2025-02-19/.; Montague, “Judge Says Trump Plan to Put U.S.A.I.D. Workers on Leave Can Proceed”; Edward Wong, “Trump Appointees Fire 2,000 U.S.A.I.D. Employees and Put Others Worldwide on Leave,” New York Times, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/us/politics/trump-usaid-employees-firing.html; Edward Wong, “Trump Administration Draft Order Calls for Drastic Overhaul of State Department,” The New York Times, April 20, 2025, sec. U.S., https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/trump-state-department-overhaul.html; Cheney and Gerstein, “Judge Warns Trump Administration to Comply with Court Order on Foreign Aid Payments”; Montague, Crowley, and Liptak, “Chief Justice Allows U.S. to Continue Freeze on Foreign Aid Payments”; Mandavilli, “U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid”; Liptak, “Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Bid to Freeze Foreign Aid”; Demirjian et al., “Final Cuts Will Eliminate U.S. Aid Agency in All but Name.”; Chris Cameron, “Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Move to Cut $4.9 Billion in Foreign Aid,” New York Times, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/politics/trump-foreign-aid-cuts-judge.html; Adam Liptak, “Chief Justice Roberts Lets Trump Block Foreign Aid for Now,” New York Times, 2025b, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-foreign-aid.html; Ann E. Marimow, “Supreme Court Allows Trump to Slash Foreign Aid,” New York Times, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-foreign-aid.html; Tony Romm, “Trump Proposes $163 Billion in Cuts Across Government in New Budget,” New York Times, 2025, www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/heres-the-latest.html; Amy Schoenfeld Walker, Malika Khurana, and Christine Zhang, “What Remains of U.S.A.I.D.?,” New York Times, 2025, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-foreign-aid-trump.html; Laura Kelly, “Rubio: USAID Officially Ceases Operations,” The Hill, 2025, www.thehill.com/policy/international/5379363-us-aid-agency-closure/; Zach Schonfeld, “Supreme Court Allows Trump to Resume Mass Layoffs; Jackson Dissents from ‘Senseless’ Decision,” The Hill, 2025, www.thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5390576-supreme-court-trump-mass-layoffs/; Zach Montague, “Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Aid, Appeals Court Rules,” New York Times, 2025b,www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/us/politics/foreign-aid-trump-appeals-ruling.html; Zach Montague, “Appeals Court Declines to Block Trump From Freezing Foreign Aid,” New York Times, 2025c, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/politics/appeals-court-trump-foreign-aid.html; Edward Wong, “U.S. to Cut Out Nongovernmental Groups in Refocusing Health Aid,” New York Times, 2025c, www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/us/politics/us-aid-health-ngos.html.