Rubio says 83% of USAID programs to be scrapped after initial plan to...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : After that meeting, Trump, 78, announced that he was reining in Musk's power and was giving cabinet secretaries and other high-ranking officials more sway over personnel decisions while denying the claim that the billionaire had argued with Rubio. Rubio and Musk have since made public overtures, including on Sunday when the two men hit back at Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski's suggestion that Warsaw may have to look for other internet providers if SpaceX proves unreliable after Musk crowed about his power to cripple Ukraine's communications.
50% : Shortly after President Trump was sworn into office Jan. 20, "special White House employee" Elon Musk took aim at USAID, an independent agency established in 1961 with an annual budget of $40 billion in appropriations alone.
41% : 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.

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