Since 14 February, USAID has paid to its contractors and grantees. Over the same time period in 2024, $416M was paid.
On Donald Trump's first day in office, he issued an Executive Order freezing all obligations and disbursements of foreign assistance funds. On 24 January 2025, the U.S. Department of State ordered a suspension of all foreign aid. The blanket funding freeze was partially reversed on 28 January, when the Secretary of State issued a waiver for life-saving humanitarian assistance. In parallel, the Trump Administration has terminated most of the USAID workforce.
Legal challenges to the 90-day freeze and the termination of USAID contracts are ongoing. On 14 February, a federal judge halted the 90-day freeze and ordered the Trump administration to restore funding for foreign assistance contracts. After signs that the Trump administration had not complied with the judge's order, the court gave the administration a deadline of 26 February to pay contractors and grantees for work done before 13 February.
These data provide a view into the disbursement of U.S. government funding and are a signal of which programs are operating. Data are sourced from the U.S. Treasury, which releases data on the withdrawals of cash for all federal government accounts.
