Various Authors, AFSA Media Digest. What We’ve Lost
ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press. Rubio orders firings of all USAID staffers overseas to move forward
Briana (Odom) Imran, Federal News Network. Executive order may alter rights for Foreign Service employees
Dennis Jett, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Donald Trump is selling more ambassadorships than normal
Ben Johansen, Politico. US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict 
Opinion Letters, New York Times. Dimming America’s Beacons to the World

David Folkenflik, NPR. From 1,300 to 81 workers: Trump official plans to cut Voice of America to the bone 

Scott Busby and Charles O. (Cob) Blaha, Just Security. How the Proposed State Department Reorganization Guts U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy

Ben Johansen, Politico. Termination notices expected to go out to all remaining Voice of America employees this week
Joseph Gedeon, The Guardian. Trump administration closes state department’s office of analytic outreach
Robbie Gramer, Politico. Rubio outlines plans to drastically cut human rights offices in State
Elizabeth Colton, Citizen Times. Support, honor US Peace Corps and other civilian services now being dismantled

Kathryn Rhine, The Conversation. Cutting HIV aid means undercutting US foreign and economic interests − Nigeria shows the human costs

Allison Lombardo, Commentary, CSIS. USAID Cuts Weaken U.S. Influence at the United Nations

Christian Ruth, Time: How Reagan’s USAID Reforms Compared to Trump’s
Joshua Foust, DeseretNews: The hand that feeds: The unseen cost of dismantling foreign aid
Taiwo Adebayo, AP: Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished
J.R. Bullington, ENews: Peace Corps, under threat, showed America’s benevolence
Michael Posner, The New York Times: Trump Is Destroying a Core American Value. The World Will Notice.

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Ethan Dodd/Ted Lipien, The FreePress
Voice of America Needs to Be Fixed, Not Silenced

Elliott Abrams, The National Review
State Department ‘Reform’ Plans Leave Much to Be Desired

Jim Kunder, The Hill
From the Foreign Service Journal
Liz Colton, Citizen Times

Ari Ban Am and Johanna Yang, The National Interest
Anna Gawel, Devex

Kathy Cruz, Sequim Gazette
Tibor Nagy, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Arjee Javellana Restar and Don Operario, The Hill
Martha Bayles, Discourse

Dana Deree, Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Maya Elhawary, The Walrus
Jay Nordlinger, National Review
Gretel Kahn, Reuters Institute
Kathleen Mathews, Washington Monthly
Johanna Alonso, Inside Higher Education
Marisa Lally and Gerardo Blanco, The Times Higher Education

American Foreign Service Association, afsa.org
Geoffrey Cowan, The Los Angeles Times
Ryan Crocker, The National Interest
John Roos and John Beed, The Mercury News
Dennis Jett, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Mikaela Meredith, Portland Press Herald
Neil Schluger, The Hill
Annie Beauneu, Medium.com
Bill Whitaker, cbsnews.com

Mark Pomer, Just Security
Matt Armstrong, The Hill
Keith Peterson, Daily Herald
Ronald E. Neumann and Gregory Starr, The National Interest
Kenneth Quinn, Des Moines Register

Chas W. Freeman, Jr., InkstickMedia
Steve Herman, Substack
Andrew I. Rudman, Portland Press Herald
Dana Hayes, Portland Tribune
Dennis Jett, Pittsburgh Gazette
Ian Kelly, Chicago Tribune
Tom Armbruster, Foreign Analysis

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