The State Department formally announced Friday it is closing the US Agency for International Development (USAID) after the Trump administration prevailed in a federal court case challenging the

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the "era" of USAID is "now over,” but did not say whether he would seek congressional approval for effectively dissolving an agency created by Congress.

USAID staff were informed of the decision by an internal memo from Jeremy Lewin, a member of billionaire Elon Musk’s job-slashing DOGE.