Washington has formally shut down its foreign aid agency USAID, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced, branding the organization inefficient and a failure in its core mission.

Long the primary vehicle for funding political and development projects abroad, USAID had “fallen well below” its obligations to advance US interests, Rubio said in a statement on Tuesday. With more than $715 billion in inflation-adjusted spending over the decades, the agency promoted “anti-American ideals and groups,” including DEI, censorship, and regime change operations, while fostering an “NGO industrial complex,” he added.

”This era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end… As of July 1st, USAID will officially cease to implement foreign assistance,” Rubio stated, adding that the State Department has officially absorbed the agency’s functions.

US President Donald Trump launched the process of dismantling USAID shortly after returning to office in January, after accusing the organization – often criticized by conservatives as promoting liberal causes – of being run by “radical lunatics” and facilitating corruption “at levels rarely seen before.”

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