Donald Trump offered this comment Sunday evening about USAID, the U.S. Agency For International Development, which he is reportedly planning to drastically shrink and merge into the State Department.
Lead Democrat on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee overseeing foreign aid explains Trump's attacks on USAID.
Trump administration cuts 2,000 USAID jobs and places most staff on leave, signaling major shift in U.S. foreign aid operations.
Musk, Trump and some Republican lawmakers have targeted the U.S. aid and development agency, which oversees humanitarian, ...
According to a USAID factsheet now taken offline, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists and assisted 707 outlets.
El Salvador has lived under a state of emergency ... announced Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency. Thousands of USAID employees already had been laid off and programs shut down.
The most dramatic was naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting administrator of USAID. Rubio — who was traveling in El Salvador — told reporters that his new role did not mean USAID was ...
El Salvador has lived under a state of emergency ... Rubio told reporters in San Salvador that he was now the acting administrator of USAID but had delegated that authority so he would not be ...