{"id":1544770,"date":"2025-07-01T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1544770"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:15:00","slug":"rubio-announces-usaid-has-officially-ceased-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/rubio-announces-usaid-has-officially-ceased-operations\/1544770\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Announces USAID Has ‘Officially’ Ceased Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rubio Announces USAID Has ‘Officially’ Ceased Operations<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Tuesday the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which had been rapidly dismantled earlier this year by the Trump administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In a blog post on the State Department\u2019s website, Rubio wrote<\/a> that foreign assistance provided by USAID had failed to deliver results for Americans and also said that the agency was part of the \u201cglobe-spanning NGO [non-governmental organizations] industrial complex\u201d that was funded by taxpayers.<\/p>\n

\u201cUSAID has little to show since the end of the Cold War,\u201d<\/strong> Rubio said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDevelopment objectives have rarely been met, instability has often worsened, and anti-American sentiment has only grown. On the global stage, the countries that benefit the most from our generosity usually fail to reciprocate.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Rubio wrote that as of July 1, the agency \u201cwill officially cease to implement foreign assistance\u201d and that only assistance programs that align with the Trump administration\u2019s priorities will be facilitated.<\/p>\n

Democrats and a union representing foreign service workers have strongly pushed back against the dismantling of USAID, claiming that cuts to the agency would lead to a reduction in aid to poor countries and would ultimately put lives in danger.<\/p>\n

But Rubio said in the blog post that USAID pushed anti-American ideas across the world along with \u201ccensorship and regime change operations\u201d overseas and that it collaborated with NGOs that were \u201cin league with Communist China and other geopolitical adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the day of Rubio\u2019s announcement, the American Foreign Service Association union, which has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, said<\/a> in a statement that USAID\u2019s closure would cause the United States to lose its standing in the world and would impact the government\u2019s capacity to wield \u201csoft power.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRather than engage in constructive conversations to lessen the devastating impact of these layoffs, the administration chose instead to inflict maximum pain and hardship through a barrage of questionable\u2014and likely illegal\u2014policies, accompanied by dismissive and dehumanizing rhetoric, all delivered with little thought to implementation or human consequences,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> the American Foreign Service Association stated.<\/p>\n

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A new “analysis” published Monday in The Lancet<\/a><\/strong>, a once-reputable medical journal that disgraced itself during the COVID-19 pandemic, made the absurd claim that “14 million people could die over the next five years” because Donald Trump and the Trump administration cut funding to USAID.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This “analysis” also claimed that from 2001-2021, per NBC News, that “USAID-funded programs prevented nearly 92 million deaths across 133 countries.”<\/p>\n

Some Republicans in Congress welcomed Tuesday\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica First: Every Dollar, Every Diplomat. Thank you, President Trump and Secretary Rubio, for your leadership,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>GOP members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote<\/a> in a post on social media platform X.<\/p>\n

This comes just three weeks after Rubio ordered U.S. embassies around the world to proceed with a directive to fire all remaining staffers with USAID.<\/p>\n

A federal judge had temporarily blocked an executive order by President Donald Trump for mass firings at multiple federal agencies, including the State Department, and plaintiffs have argued that Rubio\u2019s reorganization plan appears to violate that court injunction. The Trump administration said the plan was already underway when the order was issued.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had made USAID one of its first targets to dismantle as part of a Trump administration initiative to reduce what it said was fraud, waste, and abuse within the federal government. <\/strong>At one point earlier this year, Rubio had served<\/a> as the acting head of USAID while it was being dismantled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 07\/01\/2025 – 19:15<\/span><\/p>\n

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