9. Agency for International Development · Notable

Rescind USAID's Climate Strategy 2022–2030 and all foreign aid climate policies

Done

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“The next conservative Administration should rescind all climate policies from its foreign aid programs (specifically USAID’s Climate Strategy 2022–2030); shut down the agency’s offices, programs, and directives designed to advance the Paris Climate Agreement; and narrowly limit funding to traditional climate mitigation efforts.”

What has happened

Feb 3, 2026 Done
Nothing remains to rescind. The enacted FY2026 foreign-operations appropriation contains no occurrence of the word "climate", and neither does the FY2027 Congressional Budget Justification: there is no climate policy left in United States foreign aid.
- Public Law 119-75 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (Division F, National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs)
  Primary Congress Feb 3, 2026
- FY 2027 Department of State Congressional Budget Justification
  Primary Executive branch Apr 20, 2026
Jul 1, 2025 Partially done
USAID ceased implementing foreign assistance and its programs were discontinued or moved to State, leaving the Climate Strategy 2022-2030 with no issuing agency and no programs to govern. No instrument rescinding the Strategy by name was published, and usaid.gov is behind a Cloudflare challenge that refuses both curl and WebFetch, so the document's own status cannot be read.
- Secretary Rubio, "Making Foreign Aid Great Again" (State Department Spanish translation): as of July 1 USAID officially ceases to implement foreign assistance
  Primary Executive branch Jul 1, 2025
- Secretary Rubio: On Delivering an America First Foreign Assistance Program (notice to Congress of the USAID reorganisation)
  Primary Executive branch Mar 28, 2025
Jan 20, 2025 Attempted
Executive Order 14162 revoked and rescinded the U.S. International Climate Finance Plan immediately, ordered OMB to issue guidance rescinding all frozen funds within 10 days, and required the USAID Administrator to report within 30 days detailing the agency's actions to revoke or rescind the policies implementing the Plan. USAID's Climate Strategy 2022-2030 was not named.
- Executive Order 14162 - Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements
  Primary Executive branch Jan 20, 2025

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

Leveled done under the rule for open-ended “all X” asks - the named core object and the agency that issued it are gone and the sweep is evidenced by the absence of any climate provision in the enacted act or the successor budget. The alternative reading is partial, on the ground that no instrument rescinds the Climate Strategy 2022-2030 by name.

Action: rescind
Object: USAID Climate Strategy 2022–2030 and foreign aid climate policies
ID: 648