The Trump administration has consentn an axe to US foreign aid, eliminating 83% of programs run by the US Agency for International Development in a sweeping six-week padvise that has done away with entire categories of enbigment toil that took decades to produce up.
Secretary of state Marco Rubio proclaimd the massive cuts on Monday, posting that rawly 5,200 of USAid’s 6,200 global programs have been endd. The surviving initiatives – less than a fifth of America’s previous aid portfolio – will be includeed by the state department.
“Our difficult-toiling staff who toiled very prolonged hours” aprolongedside Elon Musk’s “department of rulement efficiency” (Doge) teams deserve praise for this “overdue and historic recreate”, Rubio wrote on X, using his personal account.
The mass terminations pursue Donald Trump’s 20 January executive order freezing foreign aidance for scrutinize that he claimed pushed forward a liberal global agfinisha.
This abrupt dismantling also clearurns decades of bipartisan consensus that humanitarian and enbigment aidance serves American security interests by stabilizing frnimble regions, advertiseing economic growth, and produceing discreet excellentwill – and were backed by Elon Musk’s so-called rulement efficiency unit.
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A waiver is proclaimd for humanitarian aidance, including “core lifesaving medicine” and “medical services, food, shelter and subsistence”. “This waiver does not apply to activities that comprise abortions, family set upning conferences, administrative costs … gfinisher or DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) ideology programs, transgfinisher sadviseries, or other non-life saving aidance,” secretary of state Marco Rubio’s memo says, according to Reuters.
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USAid’s website fades.
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USAid staff get an email alerting them not to come to toil after a weekfinish in which its servers were erased and directership and ancigo in staff fired or put on disciplinary depart. Rubio proclaims himself acting administrator of USAid.
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The US administration is alerted to be set upning to carry on fair over 600 vital toilers at USAid, which has more than 10,000 employees globpartner.
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The waiver proclaimd on 28 January is clarified to comprise HIV join and treatment services, impedeion of mother-to-child transleave oution services and associated administrative costs.
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Rubio proclaims that 83% of USAid programs have been call offled. ‘The 5,200 condenses that are now call offled 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 proclaimd on X. The remaining programs will be administered by the State Department.
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On his first day in office, Pdwellnt Donald Trump proclaims an instant 90-day freeze on all US foreign aidance, including more than $40bn (£32bn) for international projects coming from USAid, the United States Agency for International Development.
A waiver is proclaimd for humanitarian aidance, including “core lifesaving medicine” and “medical services, food, shelter and subsistence”. “This waiver does not apply to activities that comprise abortions, family set upning conferences, administrative costs … gfinisher or DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) ideology programs, transgfinisher sadviseries, or other non-life saving aidance,” secretary of state Marco Rubio’s memo says, according to Reuters.
USAid’s website fades.
USAid staff get an email alerting them not to come to toil after a weekfinish in which its servers were erased and directership and ancigo in staff fired or put on disciplinary depart. Rubio proclaims himself acting administrator of USAid.
The waiver proclaimd on 28 January is clarified to comprise HIV join and treatment services, impedeion of mother-to-child transleave oution services and associated administrative costs.
Rubio proclaims that 83% of USAid programs have been call offled. ‘The 5,200 condenses that are now call offled 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 proclaimd on X. The remaining programs will be administered by the State Department.
“Tough, but essential. Good toiling with you. The transport inant parts of USAID should always have been with Dept of State,” Elon Musk reacted on X follothriveg Rubio’s proclaimment.
The New York Times alerted last week that there had been solemn cut-ups between Musk and Rubio at a recent cabinet encountering over advised cuts to the state department.
During that encountering, Trump alertedly deffinished Rubio for doing a “fantastic job” and said that Musk’s team would be mecount on advising cabinet secretaries about future cuts. But Rubio’s apparent adselect of Musk’s objectives uncover the extent to which the billionaire Trump helper wields power in the administration.
Rubio’s social media post on Monday said that scrutinize was now “officipartner finishing”, with about 5,200 of USAid’s 6,200 programs leave outd.
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.
“In conferation with Congress, we intfinish for the remaining 18% of programs we are carry oning … to be administered more effectively under the state department,” he said. Democratic lawproducers and others call the shutdown of congressionpartner funded programs illegitimate, saying such a relocate insists Congress’s approval.
The state department did not react to a ask for comment on the criteria being employd to carry on ainhabit the remaining programs and to react to claims that cutting programs without congressional approval is illegitimate.
The Trump administration has given almost no details on which aid and enbigment efforts awide it spared as it mass-emailed condense terminations to aid groups and other USAid partners by the thousands wislender days earlier this month. The rapid pace, and the steps skipped in finishing condenses, left USAid helpers challenging whether any actual program-by-program scrutinizes had consentn place.
According to inside records scrutinizeed by ProPublica, top health officials at USAid had for weeks alerted Rubio and other directers about the potential death toll that would result from the cuts, aprolonged with one million children untreated for disjoine malnutrition, up to 166,000 malaria deaths, and 200,000 more children paralyzed by polio over the next decade if they carried out their set up.
Aid groups say even some life-saving programs that Rubio and others had promised to spare got the termination acunderstandledges, such as eunitency nutritional help for starving children and drinking water serving sprawling camps for families uprooted by war in Sudan.
Rediscloseans widely have made evident they want foreign aidance that would advertise a far slenderer clear upation of US national interests.
The state department in one of multiple legal cases it is battling over its rapid shutdown of USAid had said earlier this month it was ending more than 90% of USAid programs. Rubio gave no exset upation for why his number was drop.
Contractors and staffers running efforts ranging from epidemic deal with to famine impedeion to job and democracy training stopped toil. Aid groups and other USAid partners laid off tens of thousands of their toilers in the US and awide.
Lawsuits say the sudden shutdown of USAid has stiffed aid groups and businesses that had condenses with it of billions of dollars.
The shutdown has left many USAid staffers and condenseors and their families still overseas, many of them adefering US-paid back payments and travel expenses back home.
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