Marco Rubio Wants USAID to Undergo Overhaul, Backs Off Full Shutdown
The secretary of state wants to reorganize the foreign-assistance agency that Elon Musk and DOGE are pushing to eliminate.
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 ...
Rubio taps Pete Marocco to run USAID, despite his Jan. 6 past
In case the Jan. 6 pardons weren’t enough, one of the men who entered the Capitol now has a powerful position in the State ...
Rubio accuses USAID of ‘rank insubordination’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called out the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday for what he called ...
Kaine urges halt to USAID shutdown, citing national security risks
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), along with 37 of his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced their intent ...
Rubio attempts to tamp down concerns about immediate shutdown of USAID
It is unclear how Rubio and the State Department would work with lawmakers on USAID with Musk’s determination to close the agency entirely.
USAID Controversy Live Updates: Marco Rubio Suggests Some Parts Will ‘Reorganize’—Rest ‘May Be Abolished’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was named acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development on Monday ...
Marco Rubio tweet calling foreign aid 'critical' resurfaces as he talks about cutting USAID
We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1 percent of budget & critical to our national security,’ Rubio said in 2017 ...