While various proposals suggesting how the U.S. Agency for International Development might merge with the State Department have circulated for weeks, the speculation is now over.
The Trump administration has outlined its plans to shutter USAID and merge some of its functions and programs into the State Department in a congressional notification that was obtained by Devex.
The administration plans to propose legislation to formally “abolish USAID as an independent establishment” as part of its budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2026, according to the congressional notification sent on Friday by Paul Guaglianone, the State Department’s senior official in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs.