The audit of USAID is complete.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that the audit into the agency’s spending activities has finished, and 83 percent of programs will be canceled.
He made the announcement on X:
After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.
The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled 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.
In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department.
Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform
Perfect
Congress needs to codify the elimination of the agency – or the next set of turds will bring it back with another EO….