The new Trump administration is taking a cautious approach to foreign aid, seeking to ensure wise stewardship of every U.S. taxpayer dollar.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday on X that following a six-week review process, the federal government is cancelling 83% of U.S. Agency for International Development programs.
“The 5,200 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 wrote, noting that he intends for the remaining 18% of programs, approximately 1,000, to be more efficiently managed by the State Department.
