‘We can work with him’: Aid advocates react to Trump’s Rubio pick

"That's the stuff that really ensures we don't have to respond in a more costly way to an emergency, where you're doing prevention work, building resilience and getting people out of poverty. That piece in particular has been decimated in this package," InterAction's Lisa Bos says.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – InterAction released the following statement on the consolidation of USAID and the Department of State. Since 1961, USAID has been on the…

“Many were wholly dependent on U.S.A.I.D.,” said Tom Hart, the president of InterAction, an alliance of global nongovernmental organizations. “Suddenly pulling the rug from beneath them hurts the idea of helping countries reach self-reliance, a goal the first Trump administration rightly sought.”