Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency's programs gone

[highplainsdem]

Source: AP

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development, and said he would move the 18% of aid and development programs that survived under the State Department.

Rubio made the announcement in a post on X. It marked one of his relatively few public comments on what has been a historic shift away from U.S. foreign aid and development, executed by Trump political appointees at State and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency teams.

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The Trump administration has given almost no details on which aid and development efforts abroad it spared as it mass-emailed contract terminations to aid groups and other USAID partners by the thousands within days earlier this month. The rapid pace, and the steps skipped in ending contracts, left USAID supporters challenging whether any actual program-by-program reviews had taken place.

Aid groups say even some life-saving programs that Rubio and others had promised to spare got the termination notices, such as emergency nutritional support for starving children and drinking water serving sprawling camps for families uprooted by war in Sudan.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-rubio-usaid-foreign-aid-bf442d62af67918a6fc5eee839074601

[marble falls]

1. Fuck him.

[Walleye]

2. Children are starving cancer is thriving. You happy Marco!?

[LiberalArkie]

3. All to save the billionaires money.

[nowforever]

4. Hey

Do you know how much yacht upgrades are these days...

[LiberalArkie]

11. Yea, and Gulfstream maintenance isn't cheap either. Hopping in the Sikorsky to go shopping ain't cheap either

[3Hotdogs]

40. DAfuxamatterU? It's the AMERICAN stream.

Don't you read nuthin' in the paper 'cept the funnies?

[LiberalArkie]

42. I could put leaded gas in my car if it wasn't for all those rich toys in the polluting everything

[3Hotdogs]

44. .

.

[ancianita]

12. And to save his job -- he's a filthy sellout to Mammon, and responsible for all the deaths he has caused.

[Justice matters.]

33. So Christian of him... and all the mammonners who support...

that Fascist regime by the billionaires, for the billionaires.

So Christians of them...

[ancianita]

36. They THINK.

Because they won't read their Christian Bible, which teaches against all things of power and wealth from beginning to end.

Only overt & covert power worshippers who've turned away from God and Jesus believe and spread this evil deception.

[ancianita]

38. Here's one Christian billionaire who I'd campaign and vote for.

Note the Christian values he mentions that were revealed to Western civilization, the moral and legal systems (laws, statutes, oaths, testimony, courts, judges, etc) that brought societal order and freedom.

[Qutzupalotl]

5. *illegally executed

Only Congress can legally change funding.

[CrispyQ]

6. A lotta people all over the world were hurt by this.

[LiberalArkie]

19. It takes a lot of effort to make new terrorists around the world

[jeffreyi]

31. We were never going this to be "nice..."

...it was for our own self-interest, and very effective at that. What a stupid self-destructive thing for the USA to do.

[CrispyQ]

41. Yes, it's called soft power & it buys good will & once you squander that it's not easy to get back.

This is the problem with transactional people like Trump, although he takes it to the extreme, & that is if you can't put a dollar amount on the value of something & put it on a spreadsheet then to them it has no value. Most corporations have this shortsightedness, too.

[Biophilic]

7. Is he proud of this?

I keep trying to imagine who these people really are. They seem to have no empathy nor integrity.

[dweller]

8. I'm sure they are celebrating

Monsters all



✌🏻

[AloeVera]

45. Musk said the greatest weakness of Western civilization is...

....wait for it..

EMPATHY.

You know, like shown by Apartheid Sourh Africa, or the Europeans toward Africans or Native Americans.

Turns out if white Europeans aka Western civilization didn't have so much EMPATHY none of these bad things would have happened, apparently.

[dem4decades]

9. Congratulations asshole, you've made the wall is shame.

[Butterflylady]

10. Karma will be king....

I wouldn't want to be him or the rest of them. They won't be sparred, you can count on it.

[hlthe2b]

13. I hate them all. Honestly if the world takes revenge, we will all be the targets, but...

we didn't stop it--no matter how helpless we were to do so. To those who remain watching millions die from Trump's policies, it won't matter.

And you, Marco Rubio, can rot in hell as one fully responsible and enabling.

[ancianita]

39. We won't all be targets. The world is much more discerning than you think.

Forgiveness is still a thing for 3 billion people, and so is justice.

[kacekwl]

14. Proud of yourself Marco ?

I bet if you asked him 1 question about what they cut what they supposedly saved he couldn't answer anything.

[Blues Heron]

15. Evil people have seized control of our government

[Mister Ed]

27. Worse. Evil people have been *given* control of our government...

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...by a slim majority of American voters.

The stain of shame will be indelible for generations.

[Blues Heron]

28. your right, they were invited in

[sinkingfeeling]

16. And China really thanks us for opening such opportunity for influence around the world.

[mountain grammy]

17. and the selfish and ignorant celebrate..

America's selfishness and ignorance..

[wolfie001]

24. Racism

Don't wanna leave out the glue that holds them together.

[turbinetree]

18. Fucking Enabling Fascist.....

[BootinUp]

20. There is a good amount of political posturing here

The court battles and congressional battles are far from over.

[AloeVera]

21. Sociopathic-level inhumanity.

Hurting the most vulnerable and unfortunate is truly vile. And what about the illegality, who is fighting back in the courts?

[Bev54]

22. I'm confused, didn't the courts stop the purge?

Or is so much happening that I missed something?

[bluestarone]

26. I'm betting that's why they claim they are donr with it.

I believe NOTHING they say. I just believe the opposite.

[wolfie001]

23. I wonder what the final number of babies and children will have died while dump's in office?

Thousands? Hundreds of thousands? christo-fascism. Thanks to the racist 49.5% of America that voted for these nasty mf'ers.

[patphil]

25. Rubio just put the mark of the Beast on himself.

The destruction of USAID is complete, and now we get to see the fruits of all the Trump's labor in that respect.
Pain, suffering, death, and destruction.

[Justice matters.]

35. Yep. Screw Article 1... The billionaire Republican funders took over.

To install the Rule of the Lawless.

[ratchiweenie]

29. God these people are evil.

[Wonder Why]

30. Don't forget to starve the little kids, Mike! Just for fun!

[Vinca]

32. Guess the Trump Bible says something about starving children and taking away medical care.

Why don't the real Christians speak out???

[Mr. Sparkle]

34. This is disgusting on so many levels

[Jimvanhise]

37. THEY WILL PAY

They have created an amazing number of campaign issues for the next election as well as people who will testify to how the Trump administration harmed them and caused needless deaths internationally.

[Bengus81]

43. Hey Lil Marco,take that message out to western Kansas farmers who voted for this regime

and see how your message goes over. Those fools out there voted for your fuhrer by 90% to 96% in 2024. You'll be running over Roger Marshall for the door IF you have the balls to talk to them.

Oh yeah...throw in the fact that Eloon wants to fire 20,000 Veterans from the VA while your talking to them.

[CaptainTruth]

46. F Rubio

[PortTack]

47. Oh I'd be so proud...good gawd!

[HereForTheParty]

48. Unanimously confirmed

Why? He's always been Trump's toad.