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What (or who) will replace USAID?
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What (or who) will replace USAID?

America’s retreat from global aid is leaving a massive funding gap that no other country is stepping in to fill, leaving the world’s poorest to pay the price, warns IRC president & CEO David Miliband on GZERO World with Ian Bremmer.

The global refugee crisis is at breaking point
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

The global refugee crisis is at breaking point

As global conflicts surge, the refugee crisis is spiraling out of control. How is the world responding? International Rescue Committee president & CEO David Miliband joins Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

A photo of a woman at a refugee camp with the GZERO World Podcast logo superimposed on top.
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Rethinking the refugee crisis and global aid system, with David Miliband

David Miliband, IRC president & CEO, joins Ian Bremmer on the GZERO World podcast to discuss the worsening humanitarian crisis as the number of refugees and forcibly displaced people reaches record highs amid shrinking aid budgets and a pullback of US foreign aid.

The broken system behind the refugee crisis
Ian Explains

The broken system behind the refugee crisis

A record 123 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide, straining poorer countries and an unraveling aid system. Ian Bremmer breaks down the refugee crisis and the growing threat to global stability.

Supreme Court orders release of foreign aid funds
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Supreme Court orders release of foreign aid funds

In a 5-4 split decision, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to disburse nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funds for work completed by contractors and grant recipients under the US Agency for International Development and the State Department. Does this tell us much about how the top court will handle future Trump-related cases?

Supreme Court rules against Trump on foreign aid, spelling potential problems for DOGE
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Supreme Court rules against Trump on foreign aid, spelling potential problems for DOGE

On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court decided against the Trump administration, refusing to halt a judge’s order to resume billions in foreign aid payments.

Why cutting USAID will hurt American foreign policy
Quick Take

Why cutting USAID will hurt American foreign policy

Ian's Quick Take: The US Agency for International Development is in the process of being shut down. Nearly all Washington staff have been put on leave, they're closing missions abroad, the State Department moving to evacuate all staff around the world. Why should we care? Does this matter?

​A view of the USAID building in Washington, DC, on Feb. 1, 2025.
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Musk says USAID is being shut down

The website for the US Agency for International Development, aka USAID, went dark without explanation Saturday following President Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign aid. Early Monday, Elon Musk said that he and the president had agreed to shut down the agency.

A Politically Game-Changing Year for Better or Worse
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A Politically Game-Changing Year for Better or Worse

GZERO Publisher Evan Solomon responds to comments made by two of our top 2024 game changers, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, about cutting foreign aid. “A dramatic turn to US isolationism in a world of crisis,” Solomon writes, “would be a troubling, game-changing trend that would only make the US more vulnerable.”