At least 56 senior officials in the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) were placed on leave on Monday amid an investigation into an alleged effort to thwart US President Donald Trump's orders.

USDA's Gary Washington and USAID's Jason Gray have been asked to fill vacant leadership roles at their agencies in an acting capacity.

The tech leaders at USDA and USAID will head their agencies in an acting capacity until the Senate confirms Trump’s nominees for the permanent roles.

A message to USAID staff, obtained by NPR, says it will analyze "actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President's Executive Order" freezing most foreign aid.

Thousands of Kenyan employees working with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have been sent home following a directive that has disrupted the US-funded programs globally.

Just after 6 p.m. EST on Monday, the Trump administration placed a number of senior career officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development ... administrator Jason Gray: "We have ...

An email on Monday to U.S.A.I.D. staff from the agency’s acting administrator, Jason Gray ... Senior officials at the United States Agency for International Development have been placed on ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has put on leave about 60 senior career officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development ... Jason Gray said in the memo, reviewed ...

Doug Mills/The New York Times The crisis had deepened on Monday evening, when Jason Gray, the acting head of the United States Agency for International Development, put about 60 top officials on ...

The State Department paused several millions of dollars for "condoms in Gaza," as reports say the contraceptives were used as bomb-carrying balloons.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is not, in the scheme of things, a big part of the federal government. It dispersed $43.8 billion in the last fiscal year. That adds up to just 0.7 percent of the $6.