THE CENTER SQUARE—Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that 83% of contracts at the U.S. Agency for International Development have been officially canceled.
The announcement is the crescendo to several weeks of controversy and drama at the federal foreign aid agency as Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency unveiled a string of foreign spending projects that were difficult to defend.
“After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID,” Rubio wrote on X Monday. “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.”
Questions remain about the long-term funding of USAID, especially whether Congress’ upcoming spending bill will include cuts commensurate with the canceled…
