Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the department will only keep 1,000 USAID programs and canceling 5,200 contracts.
Rubio wrote on X:
After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled 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.In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department.Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform.
Interesting. I hope the State Department tells us which contracts it is keeping and how much they are worth.
President Donald Trump froze USAID when he came into office. DOGE reviewed the contracts and found so much waste.
Rubio became acting director of USAID on February 3. He ordered all USAID overseas staff to return home.
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