Elon Musk called the USAID cuts „tough, but necessary,“ after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said 83% of the agency’s programs are gone.
USAID cuts complete, with 83% of agency’s programs gone: Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Elon Musk called the USAID cuts ‚tough, but necessary‘, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said 83% of the agency’s programs are gone.
Elon Musk called the USAID cuts ‚tough, but necessary‘, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said 83% of the agency’s programs are gone.
Elon Musk called the USAID cuts ‚tough, but necessary‘, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said 83% of the agency’s programs are gone.
Elon Musk called the USAID cuts ‚tough, but necessary‘, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said 83% of the agency’s programs are gone.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development and he would move the 18% of aid and development programs that survived under the State Department.
Rubio made the announcement in a post on X, in one of his relatively few public comments on what has been a historic shift away from U.S. foreign aid and development, executed by Trump political appointees at State and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency teams.
Rubio in the post thanked DOGE and „our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform“ in foreign aid.
President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 issued an executive order directing a freeze of foreign assistance funding and a review of all of the tens of billions of dollars of U.S. aid and development work abroad. Trump charged that much of foreign assistance was wasteful and advanced a liberal agenda.
Rubio’s social media post Monday said that review was now „officially ending“, with some 5,200 of USAID’s 6,200 programs eliminated.
Those programs „spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States“, Rubio wrote.
