USAID has outlived the Soviet Union, which fell in 1991. Today, supporters of USAID argue that U.S. assistance in countries ...

Formed in 1961, the agency with a roughly $40 billion budget provides humanitarian assistance abroad and funds other projects ...

Democrats on Friday slammed President Trump over recent news reports that he is considering merging the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with the State Department. “It is ...

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 ...

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 ...

USAID’s website has dropped offline without ... AP photographer Carolyn Kaster contributed to this report.

The USAID website appears to be down as of Saturday ... according to a New York Times report. Following criticism that the aid freeze would threaten lives, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced ...

At least 56 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officials were placed on ... The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report. Chris Pandolfo is a breaking news reporter ...

Just one week after the Trump administration initiated a near-total freeze of U.S. foreign aid, the future of the U.S. Agency for International Development — the agency at the heart of America ...

Without funds to pay staff, aid organizations were laying off hundreds of employees. An internal USAID notice sent late Monday and obtained by The Associated Press said new acting administrator ...

At least 56 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officials were placed on ... The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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 ...