Rubio announces end of 83% of USAID programs

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday announced that the government had ended 83% of programs operated through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), asserting that they did not serve American interests.

"After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID," he announced via X. "The 5,200 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."

He further confirmed that the remaining 1,000 programs would be administered directly by the State Department. Rubio took over as acting USAID director last month after the Department of Government Efficiency highlighted the organization's spending on woke and left-leaning social activism.

The announcement followed the closure of the USAID headquarters in DC, which the Border Patrol then acquired.