I just watched the Congressional Democrats' news conference on USAID

[BumRushDaShow]

34. Here is the law that created it (funding for it was also included in an Appropriations bill for 1962)

S. 1983 (87th): An Act to promote the foreign policy, security, and general welfare of the United States by assisting peoples of the world in their efforts toward economic and social development and internal and external security,...... and for other purposes.

It has been amended multiple times since and haven't had chance to go down the rabbithole for the details of it and the amendments.

ONLY CONGRESS can create, eliminate, or move agencies around.

You might recall when FEMA was at one time, an independent agency, but was placed under DHS just before Katrina hit and we saw the mess with that. But CONGRESS did that through H.R.5005 - Homeland Security Act of 2002 , NOT Tom Ridge (who became DHS Secretary at the time of the creation of DHS).