Marco Rubio supported USAID as a senator. As secretary of state, he backs gutting it.
On at least 12 occasions over more than a decade, Rubio praised USAID’s work, from hurricane relief to battling infectious ...
Rubio says it's 'not our intention' to uproot USAID workers abroad
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told embassy officials that it was "not our intention" to uproot USAID staffers working abroad ...
How Rubio’s trip abroad was overshadowed by foreign policy at home, from USAID to Trump’s Gaza plan
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have hoped to spend his first trip abroad focused exclusively on issues close to his ...
Marco Rubio empowers State Department official Pete Marocco to run USAID
Marocco held several national security positions during the first Trump administration, including at USAID, where he tried to ...
Secretary Rubio should take a page from Senator Rubio’s book on foreign aid
As Secretary Rubio presides over a foreign aid crisis of the Trump administration’s own making, he may want to remember his ...
Fight over USAID underscores fracturing of bipartisan China-hawk stance in Washington
The increasingly bitter fight over the United States Agency for International Development is testing Washington's bipartisan ...
Marco Rubio’s USAID “Humanitarian Waiver” Isn’t Helping Restart Lifesaving Programs
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s “humanitarian waiver” for USAID programs is failing lifesaving programs amid the chaos of ...
Lawsuit describes Musk's DOGE teams overseeing the ending of hundreds of USAID programs abroad
Newly filed affidavits of U.S. Agency for International Development workers describe a lieutenant of Trump ally Elon Musk and ...
USAID inspector general fired days after publishing report critical of aid pause
The inspector general of USAID was fired by the White House on Tuesday, days after releasing a report criticizing the Trump administration's efforts to pause the agency's funding.
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Trump Fires USAID Watchdog One Day After Damning Report
On Monday, U.S. Agency for International Development Inspector General Paul K. Martin released a report noting that Trump’s ...
Transcript Shows Rubio Asking U.S.A.I.D. Worker for ‘Trust’ and ‘Patience’
Speaking at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City, the secretary of state called foreign aid “the least popular thing” that ...
Trump administration owes US business millions in unpaid bills amid USAID shutdown, lawsuit says
A new lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of stiffing businesses of hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid bills for ...