At least 56 senior officials in the top U.S. aid and development agency have been placed on leave amid a probe into an alleged effort to thwart President Trump's orders, reports say.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is not, in the scheme of things, a big part of the federal government. It dispersed $43.8 billion in the last fiscal year. That adds up to just 0.7 percent of the $6.

The news affects roughly 60 senior USAID employees or nearly every staffer who holds a top position at the agency.

The suspension affects humanitarian programs, counterterrorism efforts and weapons financing.

USDA's Gary Washington and USAID's Jason Gray have been asked to fill vacant leadership roles at their agencies in an acting capacity.

U.S.-funded aid programs around the world were firing staff and shutting down or preparing to stop operations, as the Trump administration’s unprecedented freeze on almost

The State Department has frozen new funding for almost all U.S. aid programs worldwide, making exceptions to allow humanitarian food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt to continue

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of contractors working for the U.S. Agency for International Development are being put on unpaid leave and some are being terminated after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping freeze on U.S. foreign aid worldwide.

An email to the aid agency’s employees cited actions “that appear to be designed to circumvent” an executive order by President Trump.

WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The Trump administration urged U.S. Agency for International Development ... of dollars of life-saving aid. The United States is the largest single donor of aid ...