Over the last two weeks, President Donald Trump's administration has made significant changes to the U.S. agency charged with ...

The unprecedented pause and potential elimination of many U.S. foreign assistance programs, announced in President Trump’s ...

USAID’s website has dropped offline without explanation in the Trump administration’s two-week-old funding freeze of U.S.

New administration envisions new direction for 64-year-old US Agency for International Development — one more aligned with ...

The agency said all direct hires, “with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions,” would be placed on administrative leave.

When President Donald Trump froze foreign assistance for 90 days, he argued that such a drastic step was needed to eliminate ...

EXCLUSIVE: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch and GOP senators on Thursday are expected to roll out a ...

USAID was created in 1961 under President John F. Kennedy through the Foreign Assistance Act, which brought several existing programs under the new agency. The U.S. government’s approach toward ...

Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act in 1961, and Kennedy signed that law and an executive order establishing USAID as an independent agency. USAID today is at the center of US challenges to ...

Democrats say President Donald Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency.