Posted on 03/11/2025 7:41:33 AM PDT by Twotone
More than 80% of programs run by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will be canceled following a six-week review, while the remainder will be run by the State Department, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday.
Rubio, 53, announced the overhaul from his personal account on X, saying that 5,200 contracts that “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” had been voided.
Last month, the Trump administration claimed in court documents that 5,800 of 6,200 multiyear USAID contracts — more than 93% — were on their way out, along with 4,100 of 9,100 State Department grants for a total savings of $58.4 billion.
That filing suggested that Rubio, who was named acting head of USAID last month, had “made a final decision with respect to each award, on an individualized basis, affirmatively electing to either retain the award or terminate[.]”
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So 17% remains.
That entire “agency” needs to go away. If left standing, it will just become a money laundering business for the next Dem administration.
Rubio “made a final decision with respect to each award, on an individualized basis”
I would have LOVED to have been a fly in the wall in that meeting.
“Sir, here we have $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia”
“Kill it.”
“Sir, next we have $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru”
“Kill it.”
“Here’s $20 million being spent for a new “Sesame Street” show in Iraq.”
“Kill it.”
“Next up is $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes”
“Nope. Kill it.”
“Here we have
“$2 million to promote tourism to Lebanon”
“Axe it.”
“How about this funding to send Ukrainians to Paris Fashion Week?”
“Kill it.”
“Sir, we are $10 million worth of meals to an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group in Syria.”
“What??? Stop that crap.”
“Sir, what about the $5 million to EcoHealth Alliance for bat virus research at the Wuhan lab?”
“Kill it.”
“Sir, should we keep the $7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered” language”
“AAaaarrrgghhhh!!!! Kill it!!!”
“Sir, we need to speed this up. Here are 5,000 more contracts just like those.”
“Kill them ALL!”
Excellent. The fact that we are hearing all of this whining from the DemonRATS is proof that we are spending too much on foreigners and foreign had and putting Americans last.
$2 million for Moroccan pottery classes costs 2,433 taxpayers in the bottom 50% and 143 average taxpayers. You could also say this measly $2 million would cost an average taxpayer 143 years to pay. It such a good feeling to know that that every cent that an average taxpayer pays in their entire life would pay for less than 1/2 of what it costs for a pottery class in Morrocco.
Excellent job making all that waste relate to what the average American pays in taxes. Thanks for doing that.
This is how it should be presented to the American people.
I’m hoping, expecting actually, that when or if they track down the recipients they will find that all or most were fictitious and the funds went directly into Democrat pockets. The ludicrous descriptions of what the money was supposedly being used for may have been USAID employees’ middle finger to the taxpayers.
For a lot of reasons, some establishing the pretense that a “review” was done, this approach makes sense.
83% in six weeks is fantastic.
A year from now the remaining should be axed as well.
I agree with your sentiment, as long as all of the money can be recovered.
Money being fungible, confiscation of bank accounts and other assets of the actual recipients should suffice. They made up these rules. It’s time we applied them.
SPREAD THOSE NUMBERS TO OTHER THREADS, PLEASE.
You are putting it into a scenario that TAXPAYERS can understand.
Good start, Marco, but we need DEEPER CUTS!!
Does ANYONE have a full LIST of these SCAMS that DOGE has found????
Now we need to get the RINOs in line to eliminate these horrible federal money laundering departments.
The first president that is doing something about the notional debt thumbs up great job keep it going.
Ronnie taps box
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