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

Here’s a look at USAID, its history and the changes made since Trump took office. What is USAID? Kennedy created USAID at the height of the United States’ Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union. He wanted a more efficient way to counter Soviet influence abroad through foreign assistance and saw the State Department as frustratingly bureaucratic at doing that.

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are shutting down USAID, a federal foreign aid agency that houses Food for Peace, which has a Kansas history.

Billionaire businessman Elon Musk said on Monday that President Trump agreed the United States Agency for International Development should be shut down. It was unclear whether that heralded the immediate demise of the agency that was created after Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act in 1961,

Elon Musk called USAID a criminal organization that should “die.” Proponents say it’s a key arm of U.S. influence that, if destroyed, “cannot be easily rebuilt.”