US State Dept Forms New Humanitarian Bureau after Foreign Aid Overhaul

Reuters – The ​U.S. State Department on Friday established a new bureau to oversee U.S. responses to natural disasters and humanitarian crises worldwide, capping the Trump administration’s dramatic overhaul of foreign aid, a senior department official said.

Trump officials and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency dismantled ​the U.S. Agency for International Development after taking office in January 2025, firing ​thousands of officials and canceling most of its grants before it ⁠was absorbed into the State Department.