SIGNAL BRIEF #003 - One Year Gone: The Human and Strategic Cost of Dismantling USAID

One year after USAID’s dismantling, funding fell by 43 percent, thousands of awards ended, and the US Department of State’s smaller humanitarian bureau cannot replace the lost development capacity. Mortality estimates have been both modeled and contested, but regardless, documented disruption to health, food, and education programs is serious. Development is a national security tool, and its decimation demands accountability, data, and restored capability.