The world’s richest man and its most powerful one have killed the one government agency that does the most to support the ...

Elon Musk said in the early hours Monday that he and President Donald Trump are shutting down the agency, which serves as the ...

USAID officials were forced out after refusing to give Musk agents access to internal systems and classified material.

In its first two weeks, President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. Agency for ...

Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Friday. “He’s effectively putting the Trump and Rubio foreign policy vision at risk,” another USAID official told NBC News, warning, “If you kill an ...

A former USAID official, who was granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic candidly, said many in the policy community wonder if USAID is “acting as the test case on how the administration ...

He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti-poverty efforts, economic policy and theory, and conflicts about the right way to do philanthropy. But USAID is worth ...

It comes as USAID and the State Department have been ordered to impose halts on a vast number of humanitarian and related programs around the world. The decision appears to affect nearly every ...

One source said the White House was exploring legal authorities that Trump could use to issue an executive order to end USAID's independence ... not be in high-level policy discussions," the ...

The administration on Saturday urged USAID staff to help transform how Washington allocates aid around the world in line with Trump's "America First" policy and threatened "disciplinary action ...

Republicans typically push to give State more control of USAID’s policy and funds. Democrats typically build USAID autonomy and authority. A version of that battle played out in Trump’s first ...