"They vowed to shut down the big U.S. players and instead channel aid through smaller organizations based in the countries receiving assistance.

But a new analysis shows that the opposite happened: In 2025, a handful of the largest, U.S.-based organizations were given huge new infusions of cash, while smaller groups in developing countries were all but shut out."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/health/trump-foreign-aid.html

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Trump’s USAID Overhaul Sent Millions More Dollars to Big U.S.-Based Contractors

While organizations in the developing world were nearly shut out, the big aid agencies DOGE had called wasteful received huge infusions of cash, a new analysis found.

The New York Times