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

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

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

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) upended the U.S. Agency for International ...

Billionaire Elon Musk was the focus of many in Washington this week, as his Department of Government Efficiency slashed at ...

The billionaire tweeted that he “spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.” What might that mean for America’s ability to deliver aid? Over the weekend, Elon Musk took to X with a series ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...