Credit: Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett
by Ben Kew
March 10, 2025
The audit of USAID is complete.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that the audit into the agency’s spending activities has finished, and 83 percent of programs will be canceled.
He made the announcement on X:
After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.
The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.
In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department.
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