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USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that there's somehow a global charity separate from the national interest,
Rubio said
Congress established the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as an independent agency, separate from the Department of State, to ensure that we can deploy development expertise and U.S. foreign assistance quickly, particularly in times of crisis, to meet our national security goals,
they wroteFor this reason, any effort to merge or fold USAID into the Department of State should be, and by law must be, previewed, discussed, and approved by Congress,
the letter said
Frequently, in the past, our development goals and projects have not been undertaken as integral steps in a long-range economic development program,
Kennedy saidWe will do everything we can to block State Department nominees from going forward until this illegal action is reversed,
he saidThe best testament to USAID's contribution is the surge in PRC-backed and Russian-backed propaganda maligning USAID and our work around the world,
she said, using the initials of China's official name, the People's Republic of China
It’s been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we’re getting them out.”
When asked about USAID on Sunday, Trump told reporters
To be very explicit about what is being turned off, the sort of things that are being stopped, are programs that support 20 million people on lifesaving HIV treatment right now,
said Konyndyk, who is president of Refugees International, a rights advocacy organizationDid you know that USAID, using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people?”
read one post, which cited a 2023 New York Post article about the origins of the pandemicThe way that the U.S. carries out relief and development programming overseas is in partnership,
he saidThey serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries,
it said
The aid community is grappling with just how existential this aid suspension is."
Abby Maxman, president of Oxfam America, told the Associated Press on Wednesday
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USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die."
Elon Musk, the head of DOGE and CEO of Telsa and SpaceX, wrote on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday
The United States is no longer going to blindly dole out money with no return for the American people."
Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State Tammy Bruce said in a January 26 statementOn behalf of the American people, we promote and demonstrate democratic values abroad and advance a free, peaceful, and prosperous world,
the agency's mission statement statesThis is a really sad and scary time, and I hope the American people are starting to see what the aid community has seen since day one (of the Trump administration),
the contractor told NewsweekIt's hard because I've spent my life pursuing and working toward a career in global development/international affairs and it seems like that career path/industry is being forcibly removed from this country,
the contractor told NewsweekI've had to file for unemployment and will need to go on food stamps,
the contractor told NewsweekI expected some big changes – some bad, some good,
the contractor told NewsweekNone of this could be done without the full support of the president, you know. And with regard to the USAID stuff, I went over it with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down."
In an X Spaces discussion, Musk said