The videoconference marked the end of USAID's 63-year run as an independent agency before its absorption into the State Department.

Bush directly criticized the Trump administration's move to fold the U.S. Agency for International Development into the State Department on Monday during a video tribute for the agency's staffers.

In a rare bipartisan rebuke, former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush have publicly condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID),