Elon Musk said he and Trump want to shut down the agency because of its purportedly “radical” work, but the controversy seems mired in partisan politics.

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

But generally, USAID operates without much micro-managing from the State Department, which has some 75,000 employees around the world, a number that includes local staffers in other countries.

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 ...

The website of the US Agency for International Development went offline without explanation Saturday ... that Trump may be headed toward ending USAID as an independent agency and absorbing it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two now-former USAID contractors voiced deep concerns about having life-threatening health conditions, in one case exacerbated by frequent work travel, and suddenly finding themselves without ...

WASHINGTON — The website of the U.S. Agency for International Development went offline without explanation Saturday ... Trump may be headed toward ending USAID as an independent agency and ...

“The materials show no evidence that you engaged in misconduct,” Nick Gottlieb, USAID's director of employee ... notices to a group of employees without due process,” he wrote in a farewell ...

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 ...