Rubio says 83% of USAid programs terminated after six-week purge
by Joseph Gedeon in Washington and agencies from US news | The Guardian on (#6VTPA)
Surviving aid to be administered by state department in radical narrowing of definition of US national interest
The Trump administration has taken an axe to US foreign aid, eliminating 83% of programs run by the US Agency for International Development (USAid) in a sweeping six-week purge that has done away with entire categories of development work that took decades to build up.
Secretary of state Marco Rubio announced the massive cuts on Monday, posting that roughly 5,200 of USAid's 6,200 global programs have been terminated. The surviving initiatives - less than a fifth of America's previous aid portfolio - will be absorbed by the state department.
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