Abroad missions for the United States Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) have reportedly been instructed to close down and that staffers had been being recalled to the US by Friday.
CBS Information reported that Peter Marocco, the director of overseas help on the State Division who was tapped by State Division Secretary Marco Rubio to run USAID, instructed the company’s management that those that don’t comply shall be evacuated by the army.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to USAID and the State Division.
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The U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) headquarters is seen on Monday in Washington. (Getty Pictures)
USAID has come underneath scrutiny by the Trump administration over what it’s spending.
“For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the ridiculous — and, in many cases, malicious — pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats, with next-to-no oversight,” the White Home mentioned Monday.
USAID allotted tens of millions of {dollars} for applications the Trump administration considers controversial and that steadily concerned variety, fairness and inclusion (DEI) initiatives launched through the Biden administration, critics say.
Throughout an interview with Fox Information that aired Tuesday, Rubio mentioned USAID has “basically evolved into an agency that believes that they’re not even a U.S. government agency.”
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives to look at as folks board a repatriation flight sure for Colombia at Albrook Airport in Panama Metropolis on February 3, 2025. Rubio is in Panama on a two-day official go to. (MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/Pool AP/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
“That they are a global charity. That they take the taxpayer money and spend it as a global charity, irrespective of whether it is in the national interest or not in the national interest,” he mentioned.
The purpose was at all times to reform the company, Rubio mentioned, however that “now we have rank insubordination.”
“Their basic attitude is: ‘We don’t work for anyone. We work for ourselves’,” he mentioned. “‘No agency of government can tell us what to do’.”
Rubio mentioned a typical criticism amongst U.S. embassies all over the world is that USAID is not cooperative and “undermines the work that we’re doing.”
On Tuesday, Sen. Jodi Ernst, R-Iowa, mentioned each greenback given to USAID must be scrutinized.
In a collection of posts on X, Erst famous tens of millions in support that had been allegedly funneled to fund good causes ended up within the arms of dangerous actors.
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Workers and supporters collect to protest exterior of the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) headquarters on Feb. 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Picture by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Pictures)
She famous $9 million in humanitarian support to feed civilians in Syria that allegedly ended up within the arms of terrorists, in addition to one other $2 million spent on Moroccan pottery lessons and promotion.
Different tasks included commerce help to Ukraine to pay for fashions to attend Vogue Weeks occasions in New York Metropolis, London and Paris and tens of millions spent to assist Afghans develop crops as a substitute of opium.
“The results: opium poppy cultivation across the country nearly doubled, according to the UN,” she wrote.
On this picture the US Company for Worldwide Growth brand is seen in Virginia, on February 21, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Company by way of Getty Pictures)
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“USAID asked, ‘Can you tell me how to get how to get to Sesame Street?’ and ended up in Iraq,” she wrote in one other put up. “USAID authorized a whopping $20 million to create a Sesame Street in Iraq.”
