Billionaire businessman Elon Musk said on Monday that President Trump agreed the United States Agency for International Development should be shut down.

The U.S. Agency for International Development is in crisis as workers report being locked out, adding to the growing sense that President Trump will dismantle the government’s lead humanitarian aid agency.

Formed in 1961, the agency with a roughly $40 billion budget provides humanitarian assistance abroad and funds other projects to further U.S. interests.

In an unprecedented flexing of the power of the executive branch, unelected billionaire Elon Musk is shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Until a few days ago, most Americans might have gone their entire lives without hearing of the US Agency for International Development, the little-known government organization that the world’s wealthiest man targeted for dissolution over the weekend by labeling it as a criminal enterprise on his social media platform.

The U.S. Agency for International Development has been in the headlines following Texas billionaire Elon Musk's comments about the shutdown.

In its first two weeks, President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. Agency for International Development

President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. agency charged with delivering humanitarian assistance overseas that has left aid