US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States is officially canceling 83% of the programs of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
He reported this on the social network X.
"After a 6 week review we are officially canceling 83% of the programs at USAID. 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," he said.
Rubio added that after consultations with Congress, they intend to transfer the "remaining 18% of programs" (about 1,000) "to be administered more effectively" under the leadership of the State Department.
The Secretary of State thanked the DOGE Department of Government Efficiency, headed by American billionaire Elon Musk, and "the hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform.”
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As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the administration of US President Donald Trump announced the termination of more than 90% of payments to foreign countries from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This information became known from the lawsuit. The total maximum value of the withheld grants is approximately USD 57 billion.
Billionaire Elon Musk said that work is underway to close USAID.
He also accused the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) of spreading the coronavirus and disseminating propaganda. After these accusations, Musk deleted the organization's account from the social network.
On January 29, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy instructed to allocate funds from the budget to finance a number of key programs of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which were suspended after the decree of US President Donald Trump.
On January 6, Suspilne wrote that the Ukrainian office of USAID had received an order to suspend the implementation of all projects. An unnamed employee of the office told the publication about this.
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