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Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with more than 80% of agency's programs gone

Mar 10, 2025 View Original Article
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    8% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -11% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

87% : Musk and Rubio on Monday, as Trump had last week, insisted relations between the two of them were smooth.
53% : READ MORE: Trump administration must pay nearly $2 billion in USAID and State Department debts, judge rules Rubio made the announcement in a post on X.
37% : WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development, and said he would move the 18 percent of aid and development programs that survived under the State Department.
29% : Trump charged that much of foreign assistance was wasteful and advanced a liberal agenda.
28% : Democratic lawmakers and others call the shutdown of congressionally-funded programs illegal, saying such a move requires Congress’ approval.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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