Feb 4, 2025 · Because Congress established USAID as an independent establishment (defined in 5 U.S.C. 104) within the executive branch, the President does not have the authority to abolish it; congressional authorization would be required to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID.

Feb 1, 2025 · In short, Congress established USAID as its own agency and asserted its role in transfers of functions between USAID and State. It authorized the president to abolish or reorganize USAID for a moment in time, in accordance with the plan it authorized the then-president to provide in 1998. That reorganization occurred, with USAID’s ...

Feb 4, 2025 · The Congressional Research Service, a federal agency tasked with legislative research and analysis, published a Monday report declaring President Trump does not have the “authority” to abolish...

4 days ago · When Rubio was in the Senate, for instance, he was the lead sponsor of legislation in 2016 to make sure USAID established and monitored clear goals in line with Congressional priorities.

Feb 3, 2025 · Donald Trump’s apparent plans to shutter the US Agency for International Development without congressional authority represent another unprecedented move by a president who, since taking office...

Feb 5, 2025 · Here is what the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan, independent policy research and analysis arm of the United States Congress, said about whether the president can shut down USAID ...

5 days ago · The plaintiffs said Trump has unilaterally attempted to reduce the agency without congressional authorization, arguing that Congress is the only entity with the authority to dismantle USAID ...

Feb 3, 2025 · Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act and Kennedy set up USAID as an independent agency in 1961. USAID has outlived the Soviet Union, which fell in 1991. Today, supporters of USAID argue that U.S. assistance in countries …

Feb 3, 2025 · USAID was created via Congress's Foreign Assistance Act in 1961. That law mandated for a government agency to be set up and tasked with administering overseas spending. Then-President John F...

3 days ago · According to a 2024 analysis by the Congressional Research Service, about two-thirds of U.S.A.I.D.’s funding from fiscal year 2013 to fiscal year 2022 went to project-based assistance, about 19 ...