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The U.S. State Department is turning on the taps for global health, with a new channel of funding set to award $4.5 billion over the next five years. That

The former Department of Government Efficiency staffer is now serving as the State Department's director of policy planning, where he is a special adviser and operator for Rubio on “key foreign policy matters."

In a letter signed by over 100 American lawmakers, Democratic senators and representatives warn that billions of dollars in foreign aid are slated for expiry by the end of next month — including more $3 billion in global health assistance.

The reversal comes after Devex first reported that FEWS NET, a 40-year-old famine monitoring system, had stopped reporting on Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yemen earlier this month.

As Washington strips protections from over a million migrants, halted remittances and an influx of people are set to compound crises from Haiti to Somalia.

“While staff have lived with this uncertainty for months, our beneficiaries have not," said a staff member with one of the affected aid initiatives. "We now face difficult conversations with people who placed their trust in us."

Veprek became the head of the State Department’s foreign assistance, humanitarian affairs and religious freedom bureau on Aug. 28, following the departure of Jeremy Lewin earlier this month.

The Trump administration plans to reduce health aid by almost 60% a year. Plus, a look inside the IKEA Foundation's grant strategy and a new leader for foreign assistance at the U.S. State Department.

A billionaire's heir spent a decade building influence in Washington. Now, his network is betting on a new idea: that a combination of public and private cash — and a laser focus on cost-effectiveness — can remake the world's malnutrition supply chain.

Ireland makes international development a defining part of its agenda as it settles into its presidency of the EU Council. Plus, USDA's staff crunch, and Global Citizen's new co-chair.