Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained on Fox News tonight why they had to shut down USAID today, causing outrage among Democrats in Congress.
Rubio said that the plan was always to reform USAID, but now they have ‘rank insubordination’ and that they had to take dramatic action to bring it under control because officials there were being completely uncooperative.
He underscores that there is foreign aid doled out by USAID that must continue. But whether that happens in a reformed USAID or somewhere in the state department is yet to be determined.
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