Ramp down USAID partnerships with U.N. agencies and Beltway contractors

What has happened

1. Jan 7, 2026 Partially done

   The Presidential Memorandum withdrawing the United States from international organizations, conventions and treaties contrary to United States interests cut the multilateral partner list directly, and is the instrument behind the Department's January 2026 withdrawal announcements.

   • Presidential Memorandum — Withdrawing the United States From International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties That Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

     Primary Executive branch Jan 7, 2026

2. Dec 29, 2025 Partially done

   The United Nations relationship was restructured rather than ended. The U.S.–OCHA memorandum of understanding replaces "the current unaccountable morass of projectized grants" with consolidated pooled funds, requires the UN "to consolidate humanitarian functions to reduce bureaucratic overhead, unnecessary duplication, and ideological creep" — "[i]ndividual UN agencies will need to adapt, shrink, or die" — and States that over time the Department expects "all U.S. funding of UN humanitarian work to be channeled through OCHA pooled fund vehicles". It also pledges an initial $2 billion anchor commitment, so partnership with the UN system continues at scale.

   • Department of State, "More Lives Saved for Fewer Taxpayer Dollars: Trump Administration Leads 'Humanitarian Reset' in the United Nations" — U.S.–OCHA memorandum of understanding replacing projectised UN grants with pooled funds

     Primary Executive branch Dec 29, 2025

3. Jul 1, 2025 Partially done

   USAID ceased implementing foreign assistance. Its award portfolio — the international NGOs and Beltway contractors the Quote names, along with its United Nations partners — ended with the agency rather than being ramped down program by program.

   • Secretary Rubio, "Making Foreign Aid Great Again" (Department of State Spanish translation): as of 1 July USAID officially ceases to implement foreign assistance

     Primary Executive branch Jul 1, 2025

4. Jan 20, 2025 Attempted

   Executive Order 14169 paused new obligations and disbursements of foreign development assistance for a 90-day review of every program, the instrument under which the partner base would be cut. Nothing had yet ended.

   • Executive Order 14169 — Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid (90-day pause and review of all United States foreign development assistance)

     Primary Executive branch Jan 20, 2025