{"id":25417,"date":"2025-07-02T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=25417"},"modified":"2025-07-02T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:22:08","slug":"rubio-announces-end-to-usaid-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=25417","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Rubio announces end to USAID programs<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screen-Shot-2025-07-02-at-7.21.52-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screen-Shot-2025-07-02-at-7.21.52-AM.png 573w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screen-Shot-2025-07-02-at-7.21.52-AM-300x228.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Long the primary vehicle for funding political and development projects abroad, USAID had\u00a0<em>\u201cfallen well below\u201d<\/em>\u00a0its 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\u00a0<em>\u201canti-American ideals and groups,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0including DEI, censorship, and regime change operations, while fostering an\u00a0<em>\u201cNGO industrial complex,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201dThis era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end\u2026 As of July 1st, USAID will officially cease to implement foreign assistance,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Rubio stated, adding that the State Department has officially absorbed the agency\u2019s functions.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump launched the process of dismantling USAID shortly after returning to office in January, after accusing the organization \u2013 often criticized by conservatives as promoting liberal causes \u2013 of being run by\u00a0<em>\u201cradical lunatics\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and facilitating corruption\u00a0<em>\u201cat levels rarely seen before.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/620855-usaid-shut-down-rubio\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}