Rubio: 83% of USAID Programs Canceled
Trump administration scraps over 80% of USAID programs, top diplomat Rubio says
The Trump administration has canceled more than 80% of all the programs at U.S. Agency for International Development following a six-week review, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday.
"The 5200 contracts that are now canceled 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 said in an X post that he sent from his personal account. He then pinned it on his timeline.
The remaining approximately 1,000 programs, he said, would now be administered "more effectively" under the State Department and in consultation with Congress.
President Donald Trump returned to office on Jan. 20 and immediately ordered a 90-day pause on foreign aid pending a review of whether the programs align with his "America First" foreign policy.