Posted on 08/30/2025 2:03:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Friday he was handing USAID over to the Office of Management and Budget to “oversee the closeout”
Shortly after returning to office in January, US President Donald Trump launched the process of dismantling the agency, which has long served as Washington’s primary funding channel for political projects abroad. He accused the organization – often criticized by conservatives as promoting liberal causes – of being run by “radical lunatics” and enabling corruption “at levels rarely seen before.”
Since then, thousands of USAID employees have been dismissed or placed on leave, while billions of dollars in contracts have been frozen or canceled under Trump’s broader federal waste-cutting initiative. The administration has been battling lawsuits from dismissed employees and NGOs opposing the shutdown.
“Since January, we’ve saved the taxpayers tens of billions of dollars,” Rubio wrote in a post on X. “And with a small set of core programs moved over to the State Department, USAID is officially in close out mode.”
In the same X post, Rubio said he was now handing the agency’s final shutdown over to Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought to oversee the termination of a body he said had “long ago went off the rails.”
Vought has led Trump’s efforts to claw back funds that clash with the president’s agenda, including allocations to USAID.
USAID’s activities have long drawn criticism from some foreign leaders. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico voiced concerns over what he described as potential “gross interference” in his country’s politics. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged eliminating “these foreign networks” that interfere in domestic politics.
This week, former USAID chief Samantha Power admitted in a call with Russian pranksters that the agency had invested tens of millions of dollars in Moldova to support pro-EU President Maia Sandu. The money, she said, was drawn from USAID’s Ukraine funds, of which a share was earmarked for Moldova.
“He is very impressive in his role in the Trump admin. He got in with the Tea Party movement, seemed to get co-opted for a while by the RINOs, but improved the last few years.”
A good summation.
USAID was what Marxists Obama and Samantha Power and those like them were using to try to bankrupt and overrun the West while at the same time flooding out USA dollars to fund every evil one could imagine to destroy our freedoms.
Marxists trying to pull the West up by its roots.
Russia 1917
China 1949
West 2010
“I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.” - Daniel 7:8
Their AI algorithms that ‘see’ with eyes 24 hours a day and CBDCs will be used along with Social Credit Scores (they will call it something else) to bring in a totalitarian CCP style anti-Christ Beast Kingdom over the entire Earth.
Meanwhile the ‘false prophet’ of the WEF, Yuval Noah Harari is off speaking great things against Jesus.
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