USAID Programs to Be Cut by 83%, Marco Rubio Says

Senator of Florida Marco Rubio astatine NH FITN January 23rd 2016. Credit: Michael Vadon –  CC BY 2.0 via Flickr. 

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the Trump medication is reducing 83 percent of US Agency for International Development (USAID) programs. The remaining 1,000 USAID programs that person not been chopped volition beryllium administered by the State Department.

Rubio said successful an X post, “After a 6-week reappraisal we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs astatine USAID,” adding, “The 5200 contracts that are present cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars successful ways that did not serve, (and successful immoderate cases adjacent harmed), the halfway nationalist interests of the United States.”

Marco Rubio thanked Elon Musk’s DOGE for USAID cuts

“Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking unit who worked precise agelong hours to execute this overdue and historical reform,” Rubio continued successful his post. Elon Musk rapidly responded to Secretary Rubio’s statement, saying the cuts were “tough but necessary”, and adding, “Good moving with you. The important parts of USAID should ever person been with the Department of State.”

In a tribunal filing precocious past month, the Trump medication said it had chopped astir 5,800 USAID programs.

Secretary Rubio’s connection connected X. Credit: Marco Rubio – X.

The filing says that Secretary Marco Rubio “made a last determination with respect to each award, connected an individualized basis, affirmatively electing to either clasp the grant oregon terminate it pursuant to the presumption of the instrumentality oregon autarkic ineligible authorization arsenic inconsistent with the nationalist interests and overseas argumentation of the United States.”

Major quality outlets person reported that immoderate of the programs that person been chopped were deemed “lifesavers” for overseas nations. Some besides granted humanitarian benefits to populations successful request each implicit the world.

The State Department says it aims to marque USAID arsenic businesslike arsenic possible

Since gaining office, the Trump medication has alleged that USAID was being misused, with immoderate adjacent claiming the programs were utilized to perpetrate fraud. Since then, the administration, done DOGE and the State Department, has aimed to marque the bureau arsenic businesslike arsenic possible.

At the opening of February, Marco Rubio told Congress that helium was the acting head of USAID and had ordered a deputy, Pete Marocco, “to statesman the process of engaging successful a reappraisal and imaginable reorganization of USAID’s activities to maximize ratio and align operations with the nationalist interest.”

In a missive helium wrote to Capitol Hill astatine the time, Secretary Rubio said, “USAID whitethorn move, reorganize, and integrate definite missions, bureaus, and offices into the Department of State, and the remainder of the Agency whitethorn beryllium abolished accordant with applicable law.”