Donald Trump ran his presidential campaign promising to abolish entire federal agencies and departments, but it’s not quite so easy for a president to simply end an organization that was created and funded each year by Congress,

Congress is proving little match for the Department of Government Efficiency as wary lawmakers watch it march through the bureaucracy

Dr. Atul Gawande said denigrating the agency is "dangerous for the country" and shuttering its programs could make Americans less safe.

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are applying Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” ethos to the US government.

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,

America's top diplomat Marco Rubio says he is now the acting head of the agency that distributes billions of dollars in aid around the world.

The U.S. Agency for International Development has been in the headlines following Texas billionaire Elon Musk's comments about the shutdown.