TRUMP VS. USAID: CUTTING AT TENTACLES OF THE OCTOPUS

Abolishing the agency would likely enjoy popular support. Opinion polls have long suggested that American voters favour slashing foreign aid spending. According to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, polling data going back to the 1970s has indicated broad support for cuts. BBC

"USAID was first created by President Kennedy through a 1961 executive order as an agency of the State Department, under the authority of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961." "While initially being part of the State Department, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 established it as independent agency within the Executive Branch, and allowed for the Executive Branch to decide whether to keep it as such which it did". KFF.ORG