9. Agency for International Development · Minor
Expand LPA outreach to conservative development and aid organizations
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“LPA should expand its public-facing efforts to include conservative allies that are active in global development and humanitarian aid work, including industry groups, nonprofits, trade associations, foundations, and advocacy organizations, and correspondingly reduce the aid industrial complex’s grip on USAID’s corporate relationships.”
What has happened
- Not started
No USAID outreach program to conservative development and humanitarian organizations was found, and no change to the agency's corporate relationships was announced. Cluster negative search A applies. What the record shows instead is the successor department reorienting the partner base wholesale — State's Africa Bureau describes moving "from an infantilizing NGO industrial complex modal" to commercial partnership, and the Nigeria health MOU dedicates funding to Christian health providers — but neither is LPA outreach, and the Bureau the Quote tasks with it no longer exists.
- USAID notice, Freedom of Information Act "Still Interested" Inquiry — records "the ongoing reorganization of USAID operations in 2025, including the transition of certain foreign assistance functions to the Department of State and a reduction-in-force of nearly all USAID personnel"
- Marco Rubio, "Making Foreign Aid Great Again" (State Department Spanish text): from 1 July 2025 USAID officially ceases to implement foreign assistance, which passes to the Department of State
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Adjacent, not evidence for this ask: https://www.state.gov/releases/bureau-of-african-affairs/2026/03/america-first-in-africa/ (2026-03-19) and the Nigeria faith-based health MOU of 2025-12-20 are leveled on #745 and #732.
Reviewed 2026-09-06. The open question was the Department’s own statement of the 2025-07-01 cessation date, so that the abolition Evidence here would match the rest of the Chapter 9 items rather than resting on the Federal Register notice alone. state.gov can now be read, and the statement was read: Secretary Rubio, “Making Foreign Aid Great Again”, dated 1 July 2025 — “A partir del 1 de julio, USAID dejará oficialmente de implementar asistencia exterior. Los programas de asistencia exterior que estén alineados con las políticas de la Administración … serán administrados por el Departamento de Estado.” It is added above as a second citation; the Status is unchanged and the reasoning behind it is untouched. A control test confirmed that the page opened was a real read of state.gov.
- Action
- expand
- Object
- LPA public-facing outreach and corporate relationships
- ID
- 730