The comment followed years of praise from Rubio for the billions of dollars in lifesaving aid that USAID distributed overseas to boost America’s image and counter the influence
In recent weeks, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have taken steps to close it. The agency now faces the prospect of being folded into the State Department under the direction of Marco Rubio, the secretary of state.
Dozens of officials in the U.S. Agency for International Development's humanitarian aid bureau received termination notices over the weekend, despite prior assurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the agency's "core lifesaving medicine,
Since he became secretary of state and USAID’s acting director, Marco Rubio has criticized the agency and described it as fraught with "rank insubordination" and a hindrance to the president’s foreign policy efforts.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he was taking over as head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which spent $44.2 billion in fiscal 2024 on global humanitarian aid and other programs.
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Marco Rubio supported USAID as a senator. As secretary of state, he backs gutting it.As a U.S. senator, Marco Rubio supported foreign aid and praised the U.S. Agency for International Development, aka USAID. Since he became secretary of state and USAID’s acting director, Rubio has criticized the agency and described it as fraught with "rank insubordination" and a hindrance to the president’s foreign policy efforts.
A pair of non-profit groups want Marco Rubio held in contempt over his alleged "brazen defiance" of a court order halting the government's funding freeze.
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Daily Post Nigeria on MSNU.S continues foreign aid despite suspension of agency – Marco RubioUS continues foreign aid despite USAID program suspension, says Marco Rubio United States Secretary of States, Marco Rubio has confirmed that the country is still providing foreign aid, despite the suspension of U.
When Marco Rubio testified during his confirmation to become secretary of state, he said that one of the things that frustrated him the most about the U.S. Agency for International Development was that it didn’t “brag” enough to show other countries “what the United States is doing to help their societies.”
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