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As Musk and President Trump reportedly plan to shut down USAID, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that he is the agency’s acting director. What’s in store for the future of USAID and our nation?
From Fox News. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that he is now the acting director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Rubio told this to reporters while taking questions from the press in El Salvador.
He said his frustration with USAID goes back to his time in Congress, describing the agency as “completely unresponsive.” It is supposed to respond to policy directives at the State Department “and it refuses to do so,” the secretary said, adding: “there are a lot of functions of USAID that are going to continue, that are going to be a part of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy.”
During his confirmation hearing, Rubio recalled, he said that “every dollar that we spend and every program that we fund will be aligned with the national interests of the United States, and USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that they’re somehow a global charity separate from the national interest.” …
Asked if he was currently in charge of USAID, Rubio said, “I’m the acting director of USAID. I’ve delegated that authority to someone, but stay in touch with him.” …
USAID staffers were instructed earlier Monday to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters after Elon Musk announced President Donald Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency. Thousands of USAID employees had already been laid off and programs shut down.
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