After making deep cuts in global health, food assistance, and other foreign aid based on allegations of fraud and abuse in USAID, the Trump administration announced $2 billion in humanitarian-aid funding for faith-based groups, with a consortium of US Christian organizations overseeing $1.4 billion.
World Vision will oversee one US-funded consortium providing health services and will co-lead another doing disaster relief with Compassion International and the Accord Network. Samaritan’s Purse has a separate $300 million award over two years for natural disaster response and other humanitarian responses to “protracted emergencies,” according to a State Department email to CT. Another pot
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