The Trump administration is working to identify and exempt specific USAID programmes from a sweeping freeze on foreign aid, ...

US secretary of state Marco Rubio has ordered an immediate halt to work on virtually all existing foreign aid programmes ...

The criteria for exemptions will be whether a programme furthers or is aligned with US national interests. Read more at ...

Exemptions include humanitarian assistance such as core life-saving medicine, medical services, food, shelter and subsistence ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ... aid groups around the world. In a statement late Tuesday, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said Rubio had provided waivers for food assistance as well ...