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Trump Administration Moves to Shut Down Millennium Challenge Corporation

The Department of Government Efficiency finalizes plans to terminate MCC programs, cut nearly all staff, and halt U.S. infrastructure investments abroad.

White House Senior Advisor Elon Musk walks to the White House after landing in Marine One on the South Lawn with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) on March 9, 2025 in Washington, DC.
A view in 2012 of the Chalatenango Tech Institute in El Salvador, built with funding by the US Millennium Challenge Corporation with the goal of improving opportunities in the country's poor northern region
Police personnel use water cannon to disperse demonstrators in Kathmandu against a project of the US Millennium Challenge Corporation in February 2022
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Overview

  • The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. foreign aid agency founded in 2004, is being shuttered as part of the Trump administration’s cost-cutting measures led by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
  • All MCC programs will be terminated, with limited wind-down periods granted for select projects in countries like Ivory Coast, Nepal, and Senegal.
  • The agency’s workforce will be reduced to only the acting CEO, with employees offered buyouts, early retirement, or administrative leave paid through September 30.
  • MCC, which has invested $17 billion in developing countries and countered China’s Belt and Road Initiative, will cease funding infrastructure projects that promote economic growth and governance reforms.
  • The closure follows DOGE’s previous dismantling of USAID and other foreign aid bodies, sparking criticism over ceding geopolitical influence to China.