State Department formally notifies Congress it is effectively dissolving USAID

The State Department on Friday formally notified Congress it is effectively dissolving the US Agency for International Development and moving some of its functions under the department.

The reorganization will be done by July 1, the State Department said, sounding a death knell for USAID, a multibillion-dollar agency that fought poverty and hunger around the world.

The shuttering of an agency established by Congress without the legislative branch weighing in is expected to draw legal challenges.