Local Articles

This is a collection of diverse voices on the foreign assistance freeze through op-eds, letters to the editor, and locally published articles that examine how funding cuts to USAID and foreign assistance impact America's global standing, national security, and humanitarian commitments. These voices seek to counter misinformation about foreign aid's crucial role in advancing national interests and democratic values. This list is being updated regularly.

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Opinon: Former ambassador: Destroying USAID will be a disaster for NC and national security, The News & Observer, North Carolina

Letter to the Editor: USAID cuts: A threat to N.C. jobs and safety, The Sylva Herald, North Carolina

‘Lost all of our revenue’: How Trump’s plans to shutter USAID impact Triangle business, The News & Observer, North Carolina

Opinion: I lost my job working with USAID. I won’t go silently with so much at stake, Charlotte Observer, North Carolina

Amid Mass Layoffs, Foreign Aid Workers Call on Triangle Officials to Condemn USAID Funding Freeze, Indy Week, North Carolina

Opinion: USAID helps NC in several important ways. We can’t let that be ruined, The News & Observer, North Carolina

Will ending USAID’s Food for Peace program hurt NC farmers? Here’s what we know, The News & Observer, North Carolina

How N.C. workers have been impacted by USAID cuts, Spectrum News, North Carolina

NC universities impacted by Trump administration's USAID layoffs, WRAL News, North Carolina

‘They are harming ordinary people’: Trump’s funding cuts are taking a toll in North Carolina, CNN, North Carolina

NC leaders urge Trump to reconsider USAID shutdown amid economic concerns, WFMY, North Carolina

With USAID's future in jeopardy, RTI headquartered in Durham faces funding uncertainty, ABC 11, North Carolina

USAID funding freeze could disrupt large employers in the Triangle, Axios, North Carolina

NC health leaders stress ‘immediate action’ as Trump administration aims to shut down U.S. aid agency, CBS 17, North Carolina

USAID funding freeze threatens North Carolina jobs, organizations, Triangle Business Journal, North Carolina

FHI 360 furloughs more NC staff as USAID hits continue at Durham research nonprofit, The News & Observer, North Carolina

Opinion: I lost my job working with USAID. I won’t go quietly with so much at stake, The Charlotte Observer, North Carolina

Letter to the Editor: Defend USAID, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

The Trump Administration shut down USAID to put "American Interests" First, Business Insider

Opinion: USAID helps NC in several important ways. We can’t let that be ruined, The News & Observer, North Carolina

Opinion: USAID Pays Invaluable Dividends, The Pilot

Durham City Council approves contentious rezoning proposal, calls for ‘reopening’ of USAID, The Chronicle, North Carolina

'Shooting ourselves in the foot': USAID cuts terminate some UNC research projects, The Daily Tar Heel, North Carolina

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Military power alone is not enough — international aid is vital to US security, The Hill

‘We Are Seeing Complete Destruction’: The Damage Done by the U.S.A.I.D. Freeze, The New York Times

The U.S. Is Cutting Off Foreign Aid. My Youngest Patients Are Paying the Price, TIME

There’s a story in each shard of the shattered USAID, The Washington Post

I'm a veteran and I worked with USAID. It is essential to our national security. | Opinion, USAToday

The Cost of the Trump Administration’s Foreign Aid Debacle, Council on Foreign Relations

I Came to Congress to Gut Foreign Aid. I Was Wrong, TIME

Growing Up USAID, The New Yorker

As Fellow Pro-Lifers, We are Begging Marco Rubio to Save Foreign Aid, The New York Times

USAID Kept My Troops Safe in Afghanistan, The Bulwark

VOICES DOGE fired me from USAID. I'll be fine, but America is in trouble, USA Today

The future of US foreign aid: George Ingram on policy shifts, global fallout, and what comes next, Brookings Institute

A World without USAID, IFT

Letter to the Editor: 'In Memory of Our Decency: ‘That Was U.S.A.I.D.’, The New York Times

Trump Tragedies: USAID Technical Advisor Tells Their Story, AFGE

Ex-USAID head hits back at allegation agency gave condoms to Taliban, CNN

Opinion: Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True., The New York Times

USAID official describes escaping violence in Congo amid agency turmoil, ABC 

With the dismantling of USAID, is the Trump administration defying the Constitution?, CBS

Families and Children are at Risk-Call for Foreign Assistance to Resume, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

USAID Saved Them -Then Came Trump's Aid Cuts, BBC

Hundreds of Thousands Will Die, The New Yorker

Opinion: USAID makes America safer, The Hill

Opinion: Beyond Charity Foreign Aid is America's Best Insurance Policy, The Hill

Opinion: USAID is Needed for Funding Farmer, Poor, The Hill

Beyond charity, foreign aid is America’s best insurance policy, The Hill

What Jews Around the. World Stand to Lose from the Shuttering of USAID, Forward

I am a USAID Worker Who lost their job. Here's what Trump and Must aren't telling you, Huff Post

H-2A Guestworker Program Impacted by Stalled USDA Payments, Cuts to USAID, Civil Eats

They were told to serve. Then they were told to leave, The Last Mile with USAID

The humanitarian data drought: deeper damage wrought by USAID cuts, The New Humanitarian

Opinion: Federal Workers Can Become the New Standard Bearers for Anti-Trump Resistance, The New York Times

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