Memo says Trump would cut State budget by 50 percent: WaPost

An internal White House memo proposes cutting the budgets of the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) by nearly half in fiscal year 2026, according to new reporting from The Washington Post. The early proposal for the FY26 budget would allocate $28.4 billion for State and USAID — down $27 billion, or...