Still too many.<\/p>\n
Rubio cancels 83% of USAID contracts after six-week review<\/a><\/p>\n Secretary of State\u00a0Marco Rubio<\/a>\u00a0announced that his agency had canceled 83% of the\u00a0U.S. Agency for International Development<\/a>\u2018s contracts following a multiple-week review.<\/p>\n USAID was one of the first agencies targeted by the\u00a0Department of Government Efficiency<\/a>\u00a0and Elon Musk for cuts under the Trump administration, with all foreign aid out of the agency paused initially. The Trump administration\u00a0fired<\/a>\u00a0thousands of employees and contractors at USAID and\u00a0put<\/a> Rubio as the agency\u2019s acting administrator during the reforms.<\/p>\n Rubio announced early on Monday that 5,200 contracts would be canceled because the programs did not serve U.S. interests, claiming the move would save \u201ctens of billions of dollars\u201d in a post on X.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Still too many. Rubio cancels 83% of USAID contracts after six-week review Secretary of State\u00a0Marco Rubio\u00a0announced that his agency had canceled 83% of the\u00a0U.S. Agency for International Development\u2018s contracts following a multiple-week review. USAID was one of the first agencies targeted by the\u00a0Department of Government Efficiency\u00a0and Elon Musk for cuts under the Trump administration, with … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108241,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108240\/revisions\/108241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}