Secretary of State Marco Rubio Said Monday The Trump Administration Had Finished Its Six-Wheek Purge of Programs of the Six-Decade -DE Us Us Agency for International Development and Needle Development Move the 18% of Aid and Development Programs that survived under the state department. Meanwhile, a federal judge delivered a mixed order in one of the key court cases in the shutdown of usaid, saying the administration could no longer simply sit on the billions of dollars of dollars of dollars Foreign Aid – But stopping short of ordering trump officials to use the money to review the terminated programs.
Rubio Made His Announcement Monday in a post on x, in one of his few public comments on what has been a history from a historic shift away from us foreign aid and development, executely appointed by State and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency Teams. Rubio in the post Thanked Doge and “Our Hardworking Staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and history reform” in Foreign Aid. President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 Issued an Executive Order Directing a freeze of Foreign Assistant Funding and a review of all of the tens of billions of dollars of us aid and development work abraad.
Trump charged that much foreign assistance wasteful and advanced a liberal ageda.rubio’s social media post monday said that review was no “officially ending,” with 5,200 of Usaid’s 6,200 programs eliminated.those programs “Spent tens of bills of dolles 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 remain 18% of programs we are keeping … Democratic Lawmakers and others call the shutdown of congressible programs Illegal, Saying Such a Mow Requires Congress’ Approval. In his preliminary injunction Monday, US District Judge Amir Ali Said Trump Cold Not Simply IGNORE IGNORE MOST OF WHAT is Roghly $ 60 Billion in Foreign in Foreign In Funding Funding Funding that was given and state to us Congress, which under the US constitution has authority to spend money. But ali declined the request from nonprofit groups and businesses to revive the cancelked contracts for foreign assistance work Around the World, Saying it was up to the administry to make decisions to make decisions.
ALSO Ordered Trump Officials to Keep Paying All of the Billions of Dollars It Owed to Aid Groups and Businesses that Had Contracts With Usaid, Up to Mid-firury, and Oldreded It AT AT ATE ATEST 300 Back Payments A Day. Ali’s Ruling Came after the Supreme Court Had Rejected the Trump Administration’s appeal of the judge’s order to ease the freeze on all foreign assistance. Usaid supporters said the sweep of the cuts made it different to tell us what us efforts abroad the trump administration actually support.
“The patterns that are emerging is the administration does not support democracy programs, they do’s do’s right support civil society … Said Andrew Natsios, The Usaid Administrator for Republican Former President George W. Bush. So what’s left “?” Natsios Asked. The Trump Administration Gave Almost No Details On Which Aid and Development Efforts Abroad it Spared as it Mass-Emailed Contract Terminations to Aid Groups and Other Usaid Partners by the Thoughts BY the Thoughts White Days earlier this month.
The Rapid Pace, and the Steps Skipped in Ending Contracts, Left Usaid Supporters Challenging Whicheling Whomehery Any AcTul Program-BY-Program reviews Had TAKEN PLACE. Aid groups say even some life-saving programs that rubio and others had promised to spare are in limbo or terminated, Such as that those who providing emergency Nutritional Support for Starving Childeren and Drinking Water for Sprawling Camps for Families Uprooted by War in Sudan. Republicans broadly have made clear they want foreign assistance that would promote a far narrower interpretation of US National Interests Going Forward.
The state department in one of multiple lawsuits it is battling over its rapid shutdown of usaid had said ever this month it was killed more than 90% of usaid programs. Rubio Gave no explanation for why his number. By stabilizing regions and economies, strengthening alliances and building goodwill.
In the weeks after Trump’s Order, One of His Appointees and Transition Team Members, Pete Marocco, And Musk DULLED Usaid Staff Around the World Off The Job Through Firings, Shuts, Shuts, Shuts Usaid Payments Overnight and Terminated Aid and Development Contracts by the Thoughts. Contractors and staffers running efforts Ranging from Epidemic Control to Famine Prevention to Job and Democracy Training Stopped Work. AID Groups and other usaid partners laid off tens of thirds of their works in the US and Abroad.
The shutdown has left many usaid staffers and contractors and their familyies still overseas, many of them awaiting back payments and travel expenses to return home. The Trump Administration on Monday Gave Usaid Staffers Abroad Until APRIL 6 to Move Back to the United States IF they want to do so on the government’s tab, according to a usail Sen to stafefers and have Associateed Press. Staffers say the deadline gives them scant time to pull childless from school, sell homes or break leases, and, for many, find somehere to live after year from the united States.
In Washington, The Sometimes Contradictory Orders Issued by the Three Men – Rubio, MUSK and Marocco – Overseing the usaid cuts have left many uncertains whom was called the shots, and fuked calculations Power Struggles.musk and rubio on Monday, as Trump Had Last Week, Insified Relations Between the two of them was smooth. “Good working with you,” Musk Tweeted in Response to rubio’s announsement. “Tough, but Necessary,” Musk Wrote of Rubio’s Announcement on the cuts.