USAID, a state-owned entity headquartered in the US, was founded in 1961 with approximately 15,730 employees and is focused on International Affairs. It functions as a U.S. government agency providing foreign aid.
On July 31, 2026, Elon Musk stated that the 2025 dismantling of USAID, which he assisted, resulted in "zero point zero" human lives lost, eighteen months after the agency’s dissolution. On the same day, research presented at the 26th International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro highlighted that cuts in US overseas funding for HIV treatment and prevention caused widespread closures of community-based services and key population programs globally. Previously, on July 28, the Trump administration planned to increase funding by hundreds of millions of dollars for programs designed to counter China’s growing influence worldwide, reversing a halt to many such initiatives last year due to budget and personnel cuts. Earlier that day, an "America First" transformation was underway for a global hunger program, impacting efforts to cultivate plants more resilient to extreme heatwaves, droughts, and floods in regions like the Sahel.
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