WASHINGTON:
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned on Monday the US was cancelling 83 per cent of packages on the US Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID).
President Donald Trump signed an govt order in January demanding a freeze on all US overseas support to provide his administration time to evaluate abroad spending, with a watch to gutting packages not aligned together with his “America First” agenda.
“After a 6 week assessment we’re formally cancelling 83% of the packages at USAID,” Rubio mentioned on social media platform X.
“The 5,200 contracts that at the moment are cancelled spent tens of billions of {dollars} in ways in which didn’t serve, (and in some circumstances even harmed), the core nationwide pursuits of the US,” he added.
USAID distributes US humanitarian support world wide, with well being and emergency packages in round 120 nations.
The State Division, which oversees USAID, had introduced on February 26 its intention to chop 92 % of the company’s program funding, figuring out 5,800 grants to be eradicated.