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Rubio announces 83 percent of USAID contracts cancelled under Trump

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has overseen reductions in the operations of USAID, a major artery for foreign assistance [File: Alex Brandon/AP]

The United States has cancelled 83 percent of all the programmes at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) following a six-week review, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“The 5,200 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,” Rubio wrote in a post on the social media platform X.

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