U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio put out the official numbers on how many USAID programs were terminated in recent weeks: 5,200.
This comprises 83% of the agency’s overall programming that existed in January which “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,” he wrote on the social media platform X.
The Trump administration intends to keep about 18% — or about 1,000 of what were USAID programs — “in consultation with Congress” but these will now be administered “more effectively” under his State Department, he wrote.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
