Amidst the barrage of new policies announced in President Trump’s second week in office was the decision to suspend foreign aid payments pending a 90-day review, and place the majority of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s 10,000 strong workforce on leave. A federal court has since issued a ruling intended to block the latter measure, but the future of USAID remains uncertain. The US’s share of global foreign aid flows, as tracked by the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC), has come down since the USAID’s inception in 1961, but the US still stood for around 30% of