President Trump on Sunday slammed the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), arguing it is poorly run after recent news reports that he is considering merging the agency with the State ...
USAID “is a criminal organization,” Musk, whom President Donald Trump has tasked with leading a government efficiency group — DOGE — wrote on X Sunday. “Time for it to die,” he added.
The action added to the dozens of staff at USAID being removed from their positions, as President Donald Trump's team moves to abolish the agency's independence and possibly bring it under the ...
Five others close to the administration said they weren’t aware of specific plans but that USAID’s independence is definitely not guaranteed. All were granted anonymity because they weren’t ...
A week after President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day pause on foreign aid, his administration removed two top USAID security officials after they refused to grant representatives of Elon Musk’s ...
“With regards to the USAID stuff, I went over it with (the president) in detail and he agreed that we should shut it down,” Musk said in a X Spaces conversation early Monday. Musk said he ...
Nearly 30 career staff in the agency's Legislative and Public Affairs bureau lost access overnight to their emails, the sources said, bringing the total number of senior USAID career staff who h ...
"Agency personnel normally assigned to work at USAID headquarters will work remote tomorrow, with the exception of personnel with essential on-site and building maintenance functions individually ...
Congressional Democrats have battled the Trump administration increasingly openly, expressing concern that Trump may be headed toward ending USAID as an independent agency and absorbing it into ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the ...