Secretary of State Rubio says purge at USAID complete, with 83% of agency's programs gone

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : It marked one of his relatively few public comments on what has been a historic shift away from U.S. foreign aid and development, executed by Trump political appointees at the State Department and Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
53% : President Trump on Jan. 20 issued an executive order directing a freeze of foreign assistance funding and a review of all of the tens of billions of dollars of U.S. aid and development work abroad.
38% : WASHINGTON -- 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% 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.

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