Lead Democrat on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee overseeing foreign aid explains Trump's attacks on USAID.

Trump administration cuts 2,000 USAID jobs and places most staff on leave, signaling major shift in U.S. foreign aid operations.

Musk, Trump and some Republican lawmakers have targeted the U.S. aid and development agency, which oversees humanitarian, development and security programs in some 120 countries, in increasingly ...

El Salvador has lived under a state of emergency ... announced Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency. Thousands of USAID employees already had been laid off and programs shut down.

USAID’s time has passed and it deserves the ... Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, knows. “While marketed as support for development, democracy, and human rights, the majority of ...

The most dramatic was naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting administrator of USAID. Rubio — who was traveling in El Salvador — told reporters that his new role did not mean USAID was ...

telling reporters recently in El Salvador, “I stay in touch with him.” Rubio also has ratcheted up his own criticism of foreign assistance and played down his actions in dismantling USAID.

El Salvador has lived under a state of emergency ... Rubio told reporters in San Salvador that he was now the acting administrator of USAID but had delegated that authority so he would not be ...

War-torn countries, those with high levels of debt and U.S. allies such as Jordan have the most to lose if the United States ...