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

WASHINGTON (AP) — The website of the U.S. Agency for ... of USAID is vital to national security. Trump and congressional Republicans say much of foreign aid and development programs is wasteful.

The State Department has frozen new funding for almost all U.S. aid programs worldwide, making exceptions to allow ...