Trump administration ends some ‘lifesaving’ USAid contracts, officials say

The Trump administration already has cancelled thousands of USAid contracts throughout the world (Alexander Mamo/AP)

The Trump administration has notified the World Food Programme (WFP) and other partners that it has terminated some of the last remaining lifesaving humanitarian programmes across the Middle East, according to US and UN officials.

The projects were being cancelled “for the convenience of the US Government” at the direction of Jeremy Lewin, a top lieutenant at Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whom the Trump administration appointed to oversee and finish dismantling the US Agency for International Development, according to a letter sent to USAid partners and viewed by the Associated Press.