The State Department said President Trump appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting director of USAID amid an ...

Americans usually overestimate the amount of money that goes to foreign aid, pinning it between 8 and 25 percent of ...

Dr. Atul Gawande said denigrating USAID is "dangerous for the country" and shuttering its programs could make Americans less ...

The president’s failure to name a USAID administrator and other steps seem to suggest that, at the very least, he’ll fold USAID into the State Department.

Changing USAID’s structure could get support from Republicans, who note that the idea isn’t a novel one or even necessarily partisan. “This idea has been floated by nearly every ...

Elon Musk has sidelined career officials, gained access to sensitive databases and even shut down the U.S. Agency for ...

while plaques bearing the USAID seal were removed from offices, signaling a shift in the agency’s structure. The agency’s social media accounts were also taken offline, replaced by a streamlined ...

Staff members of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) were instructed to stay out of the agency’s ...

USAID is, by statute ... “Any proposal to modify that structure would require an Act of Congress.” “A president cannot eliminate an appropriated federal agency by executive order ...

USAID is, by statute, an independent establishment outside of the State Department. Any proposal to modify that structure would require an Act of Congress,” four congressional Democrats wrote in ...

Staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development have been instructed to stay out of its Washington headquarters after billionaire Elon Musk announced President Donald Trump had agreed with ...

And what the seemingly illegal mass firings could mean for the future of independent agencies in the federal government.