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.

Inset: the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) logo is seen. Billionaire Elon Musk speaks at an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event in Washington, D.C., on January 20.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Trump administration officials are actively discussing placing USAID under the authority of the State Department, according to more than a dozen current and former officials and sources familiar ...

"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 ...

An order sidelining almost 60 senior career leaders at the U.S. Agency for International Development was temporarily rescinded Thursday by one of the few remaining senior career civil servants ...

Current and former officials said the administration removed two top security officials at USAID on Saturday after they refused to allow representatives of the office led by billionaire Elon Musk ...