{"id":188936,"date":"2026-04-07T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188936\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:59:08","slug":"trumps-foreign-aid-overhaul-sent-millions-more-dollars-to-big-us-based-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188936\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s foreign aid overhaul sent millions more dollars to big US-based contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times news story<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">When the Trump administration began its overhaul of foreign aid in January 2025, officials made no secret of their disdain for giant aid organizations and private businesses who received multimillion dollar contracts to deliver health services to poor nations. They characterized them as \u201cbeltway bandits\u201d who charged bloated amounts of overhead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">They vowed to shut down the big U.S. players and instead channel aid through smaller organizations based in the countries receiving assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">But a new analysis shows that the opposite happened: In 2025, a handful of the largest, U.S.-based organizations were given huge new infusions of cash, while smaller groups in developing countries were all but shut out.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full news story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/06\/health\/trump-foreign-aid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\/free registration is required\/<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/06\/health\/trump-foreign-aid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Times news story When the Trump administration began its overhaul of foreign aid in January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-188936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}