Defunded Aid Programs Are Asked by Trump Administration to Prove Their Value, on a Scale of 1 to 5

A week after terminating thousands of contracts, the administration has sent questionnaires to those programs asking how their work benefits the U.S. national interest.Pete Marocco, left, the State Department official who has been overseeing cuts to U.S.A.I.D., arriving for a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday.