With Trump wanting USAID shut down, the UK foreign secretary said Britain had made a 'big strategic mistake' closing its own aid department British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Friday warned that US President Donald Trump's moves to freeze foreign aid and dismantle the USAID agency could see "China and others step into that gap".

US President Donald Trump’s cuts to foreign aid could be a “strategic mistake”, the Foreign Secretary has warned. The Trump administration has presented a plan to dramatically cut staffing worldwide for US aid projects as part of its dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy warned President Donald Trump against cutting foreign aid programs, saying when Britain took similar actions, it had been a “big strategic mistake.”The Trump administration is pursuing an overhaul of USAID,