Trump administration scraps over 80% of USAID programs, top diplomat Rubio says


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  • Monday, 10 Mar 2025

Terminated U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employee Caitlin Harwood gestures as she hugs her cousin Samantha Kent after laid-off USAID workers cleared out their desks and collected personal belongings, during a sendoff in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 27, 2025.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration has canceled more than 80 percent of all the programs at U.S. Agency for International Development following a six-week review, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday.

"The 5200 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," Rubio said in an X post that he sent from his personal account. He then pinned it on his timeline.

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