What is USAID, the agency that Musk says Trump agreed should be shut down?
Billionaire businessman Elon Musk said on Monday that President Trump agreed the United States Agency for International Development should be shut down. It was unclear whether that heralded the immediate demise of the agency that was created after Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act in 1961,
While Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk said he was working to "shut down" USAID, it wasn't clear whether ...
Five former leaders of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) from across Republican and Democratic ...
A group of former administrators of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) joined on Wednesday to issue a ...
Lawmakers, USAID employees and the public rallied on Wednesday to defend the aid agency from the Trump administration's plans ...
Judge Andrew Napolitano appeared on Newsmax Monday and gave what he said was a clear breakdown of President Donald Trump’s ...
USAID and nonprofit workers gathered near the Capitol in D.C. to protest Elon Musk's efforts to shut down the aid agency with ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress that the US Agency for International Development may be subsumed into the State ...
The agency said all direct hires, “with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions,” would be placed on administrative leave.
Last week, recipients of USAID grants filed lawsuits in response. They say only Congress can decide to fund, or not to fund, those grants. Trump argues he can use his phone and pen to terminate these ...
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