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 ...

Congressional Democrats battled the Trump administration increasingly openly, expressing concern that Trump may be headed toward ending USAID as an independent agency and absorbing it into the ...

USAID’s website has dropped offline without explanation in the Trump administration's two-week-old funding freeze of U.S. foreign aid and development funding WASHINGTON -- The website of the U.S ...

An order sidelining almost 60 senior career leaders at the U.S. Agency for International Development was temporarily rescinded Thursday by one of the few remaining senior career civil servants ...

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 ...

Democrats say Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency, and that the work of USAID is vital to national security. Trump and congressional Republicans ...

The USAID website appears to be down as of Saturday afternoon. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency ... [+] via Getty Images) USAID’s website, usaid.gov, displays a message stating the server ...

But USAID is worth paying attention to, both because it does important work that belies its size and status, and because it’s become an early case study in how the second Trump administration ...

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 ...