Rubio’s years of strong support for USAID stand in contrast to his sudden criticism of the aid agency
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, newly in charge of the besieged US Agency for International Development, was for years a ...
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 ...
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Why is the Trump administration targeting USAID?
Not mentioned in the debate over appropriate spending is the fact that Congress earmarks the programs and locations for USAID spending. When Rubio was in the Senate, for instance, he was the lead ...
Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under a Trump plan to gut the foreign aid agency
Forced leaves have begun in Washington and worldwide for most employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Rubio asks for ‘trust’ from USAID mission while agency is gutted
Speaking at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States isn’t “walking away from ...
Federal workers sue to stop USAID's dismantling and the cutting of its workforce from 10,000 to 300 staff
USAID faces a slashing of its workforce to 290 employees. A lawsuit filed Thursday seeks injunctive relief to halt the cuts.
USAID to be reduced to about 290 foreign service officers and civil servants
Under the expected plan, there will only be 12 people dedicated to the entire continent of Africa and eight people for all of ...