US EditionUS to set up 12 regional disaster response hubs as it consolidates emergency humanitarian aid
The bureau will focus on life-saving aid with about 200 staff and $5.4 billion funding, significantly less than USAID's prior $40 billion budget.
- On Friday, the U.S. State Department established the Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response to coordinate U.S. efforts on natural disasters, humanitarian crises, food security, and agricultural research.
- After taking office in January 2025, Trump officials and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development, firing roughly 2,000 employees and canceling over 80% of its grants before folding its functions into the State Department.
- The new bureau will be staffed by about 200 officials, operate in 12 hubs and receive roughly $5.4 billion in annual funding, with Ryan Shrum as interim bureau head under Jeremy Lewin.
- The bureau will narrowly focus on 'life‑saving' aid and oversee global food security, while some related functions continue in other parts of the U.S. State Department.
- Before its closure, USAID managed roughly $40 billion annually in about 130 countries, and aid and relief organizations criticized the closure despite a $2 billion contribution to the U.N. Office last year.
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Trump replaces USAID with smaller State Department aid bureau
The State Department has created a new bureau to handle disaster and humanitarian response efforts worldwide, a move that comes as the Trump administration remakes and scales back the now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development. Early in his second term, President Donald Trump, working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, worked to close USAID, the agency that oversaw much of the federal government’s humanitarian and…
US to set up 12 disaster response hubs, consolidate global emergency humanitarian aid
The State Department is setting up 12 regional hubs to coordinate disaster and emergency humanitarian responses under the auspices of a new bureau that will oversee some of the functions...
U.S. to set up 12 regional disaster response hubs as it consolidates emergency humanitarian aid
The State Department is setting up 12 regional hubs to coordinate disaster and emergency humanitarian responses under the auspices of a new bureau that will oversee some of the functions that had been handled by the now-dismantled U.S. Agency for International Development.
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US to set up 12 regional disaster response hubs as it consolidates emergency humanitarian aid
The State Department is setting up 12 regional hubs to coordinate disaster and emergency humanitarian responses under the auspices of a new bureau that will oversee some of the functions that had been handled by the now-dismantled U.S.
US State Dept forms new humanitarian bureau after foreign aid overhaul
WASHINGTON, March 20 - The U.S. State Department on Friday established a new bureau to oversee U.S. responses to natural disasters and humanitarian crises around the world, capping the Trump administration's dramatic overhaul of foreign aid, a senior department official said. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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