The comment followed years of praise from Rubio for the billions of dollars in lifesaving aid that USAID distributed overseas to boost America’s image and counter the influence

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have taken steps to close it. The agency now faces the prospect of being folded into the State Department under the direction of Marco Rubio, the secretary of state.

In 2017, when now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio was a senator from Florida, he posted this on social media about the United States Agency for International Development: “Foreign Aid is

Since he became secretary of state and USAID’s acting director, Marco Rubio has criticized the agency and described it as fraught with "rank insubordination" and a hindrance to the president’s foreign policy efforts.

In assessing the current effort of Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to reduce the U.S. Agency for International Development to perhaps just 300 or so officials handling

Critics believe that the agency directs too much American taxpayer money promoting progressive political causes and that much spending supports waste, fraud and corruption. Rubio acted after higher-ups at USAID were not forthcoming when the Trump administration and Musk’s DOGE commission sought information on agency spending.

In assessing the current effort of Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to reduce the U.S. Agency for International Development to perhaps just 300 or so officials handling

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he was taking over as head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which spent $44.2 billion in fiscal 2024 on global humanitarian aid and other programs.

On at least 12 occasions over more than a decade, Rubio praised USAID’s work, from hurricane relief to battling infectious diseases to aiding refugees.

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A pair of non-profit groups want Marco Rubio held in contempt over his alleged "brazen defiance" of a court order halting the government's funding freeze.

When Marco Rubio testified during his confirmation to become secretary of state, he said that one of the things that frustrated him the most about the U.S. Agency for International Development was that it didn’t “brag” enough to show other countries “what the United States is doing to help their societies.”