Stocks tumble after Trump tariff announcement April 4, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, News, World News Stock markets around the world and in the U.S. dropped in the days after President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping “reciprocal tariff” policy starting with a 10 percent baseline tariff on almost every country in the world.
‘Put no trust in princes’ April 1, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary, DOGE cuts We as Catholics are asked to assess how Christian or moral an administration is not by its members or its rhetoric, but by its actions.
Special Mass at Washington cathedral offers support to federal workers March 25, 2025By Nicole Olea OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, News, World News A special Mass for federal workers and civil servants celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington offered a message of solidarity and hope amid ongoing employment uncertainties.
Massive USDA program cuts hit some Catholic efforts to feed school kids March 25, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, News, Schools, World News Several diocesan overseers of federally funded school meal programs told OSV News that Trump administration changes stand to leave some children’s plates empty, while potentially making surviving versions of the programs too burdensome to operate.
CRS urges U.S. restore ‘life-saving and life-giving assistance’ after Rubio review March 20, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, News, World News Baltimore-based CRS said the “termination of dozens of CRS’ life-saving projects,” including 11 operating under humanitarian waivers, “will permanently cut off critical aid to more than 20 million people worldwide.”
Gudziak: America ‘silencing its own voice’ with VOA shutdown March 19, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Journalism, News, War in Ukraine, World News Journalists dismissed by the Trump administration’s gutting of the federally funded Voice of America broadcaster “will not be silenced,” said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
U.S. bishops continue legal battle with Trump administration over refugee resettlement funding March 17, 2025By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, DOGE cuts, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Following a setback, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is continuing its legal fight against the Trump administration’s halt in federal funding for refugee resettlement services.
Amid aid cuts, U.S. bishop urges Catholics to heed ‘very urgent’ CRS collection March 16, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, Giving, News, World News Amid the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to overseas humanitarian aid, an annual collection used to serve the vulnerable in the U.S. and abroad has taken on “a very urgent significance,” said Bishop Daniel H. Mueggenborg of Reno, Nevada, head of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ national collections efforts.
CRS, women religious from Africa describe impact of US foreign aid cuts on lifesaving programs March 14, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, DOGE cuts, News, World News Women religious from Africa and a representative of Catholic Relief Services, the overseas charitable arm of the Catholic Church in the U.S., grappled with the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid during a March 13 panel hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University.
Education Department cuts could make impact on Catholic education, experts say March 12, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, News, Schools, World News The U.S. Department of Education said March 11 it planned to cut about 50 percent of its workforce. Such cuts could also impact Catholic education, experts told OSV News.
4 in 5 USAID projects now canceled, with State Department overseeing the rest March 10, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, DOGE cuts, Feature, News, World News U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said March 10 that just 18 percent of programs of the now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development will remain intact, and those will now fall under his purview at the State Department.
As funding freeze hits some Catholic agencies, others operate minus government money March 7, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Disaster Relief, DOGE cuts, Feature, News, World News Catholic agencies including Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Relief Services and Jesuit Relief Service/USA are facing major setbacks in the wake of the Trump administration’s 90-day pause and review of federal funding to numerous nonprofit organizations providing domestic and overseas aid to migrants, refugees and people in need.
