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Marco Rubio Appointed as Acting Director of USAID Amid Reports of Agency Reorganization Under Trump Administration
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been appointed acting director of USAID, amidst a power struggle between the Trump administration and USAID officials. The agency's headquarters was closed on Monday, with employees asked to stay home, amid concerns about the agency's future. Rubio has accused USAID officials of insubordination for failing to answer questions about spending and priorities, labeling their actions as "unacceptable". This move is seen as a significant power grab by the Trump administration, with some close advisers even calling USAID a "criminal organization".
At the direction of Agency leadership, the USAID headquarters at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, D.C. will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, February 3, 2025. Agency personnel normally assigned to work at USAID headquarters will work remotely tomorrow, with the exception of personnel with essential on-site and building maintenance functions individually contacted by senior leadership.
Our country deserves to have a foreign policy, deserves to have public servants that are about serving our nation, but instead they're seeing from Trump and Musk this effort to try to demonise them, trying to demonise the work that they're doing.
We don't have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk.
USAID has been an invaluable pillar of US foreign policy and projecting American power overseas. Its elimination only helps our adversaries.
We're here today to shine a light on a crime that is unfolding before our eyes and support our tremendous US civil servants at USAID.
This is a case of the very worst among us attacking the very best of us.
I love the concept, but they turned out to be radical left lunatics.
That level of insubordination makes it impossible to conduct a sort of serious review.
In many cases, USAID is involved in programmes that run counter to what we're trying to do with our national strategy.
It's going to stop and it's going to end.
USAid has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that they're somehow a global charity separate from the national interest.
It's been 20 or 30 years that people have tried to reform it.
What we have is just a ball of worms. You've got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It's beyond repair … We're shutting it down.
It became apparent that it's not an apple with a worm it in.
With regards to the USAID stuff, I went over it with (the president) in detail and he agreed that we should shut it down.
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perspectives
- 1.US Foreign Policy
- 2.US under Donald Trump
- 3.US Politics
- 4.Healthcare
- 5.Vaccination
- 6.Famine
- 7.Monkey Pox
- 8.Ebola Virus
countries
- 1.Afghanistan
- 2.Congo
- 3.China
- 4.Ethiopia
- 5.Jordan
- 6.Nigeria
- 7.Russian Federation
- 8.Somalia
- 9.South Sudan
- 10.El Salvador
- 11.Syrian Arab Republic
- 12.Thailand
organizations
- 1.US Agency for International Development
- 2.Democratic Party
- 3.United Nations
- 4.US State Department
- 5.White House
- 6.Deloitte
- 7.Doctors Without Borders
- 8.International Center for Language Studies
persons
- 1.Marco Rubio
- 2.Donald Trump
- 3.Elon Musk
- 4.Peter Marocco
- 5.Ronald Reagan
- 6.Andy Kim
- 7.Don Beyer
- 8.Jamie Raskin
- 9.John Kennedy
- 10.Stephane Dujarric
