The agency spent roughly $38 billion in fiscal year 2023, or less than 1 percent of the total federal budget. A request for comment to the State Department, which has assumed control of the agency in ...

The shuttering of the U.S. government’s marquee foreign aid agency — USAID — could have an enormous impact on Western allies and their ability to influence developing nations, a series of ...

Trump, Musk threaten USAID shut down. Here's what it is and why 'it's beyond repair' 'It became apparent that it’s not an apple with a worm it in. What we have is just a ball of worms,' Musk ...

It comes as scores of USAID staffers who showed up for work Monday at its Washington headquarters were turned away after the Trump administration told The Associated Press that it stripped the ...

USAID only 1.2 per cent of government spending Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerald Connolly said in a statement that the attack on USAID employees was "unwarranted and unprecedented." ...

2:11 USAID cuts: South Africa-led HIV vaccine development comes to a halt The Trump administration said Sunday that it is eliminating 2,000 positions at the U.S. Agency for International ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the end of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Tuesday as a new analysis found that its demolition could contribute to 14 million deaths in ...

USAID staffers say they believe that agency outsiders with visitors’ badges asking questions of employees inside the Washington headquarters are members of Musk’s DOGE team.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio celebrated the shutdown of USAID. But a new study estimates that the consequences could be catastrophic. Journalist William Herkewitz, former head of communications ...

In 1961, US Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act, and the then President John F. Kennedy set up USAID as an independent agency through an executive order, merging other agencies into the new ...