The U.S. State Department has canceled some 83 percent of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on March 10.
“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,” Rubio said on the social media platform X.
The remaining contracts, numbering about 1,000, will be kept.
President Donald Trump, after starting his second term, froze U.S. assistance to foreign nations, including aid administered by USAID. He said that “it is the policy of United States that no further United States foreign assistance shall be disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States.”…