Marco Rubio Takes Over Embattled USAID, Vows Big Changes to ‘Completely Unresponsive Agency’

Marco Rubio Takes Over Embattled USAID, Vows Big Changes to ‘Completely Unresponsive Agency’

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday that he has taken over as acting director of the United States Agency for International Development.
“My frustration with USAID goes back to my time in Congress. It’s a completely unresponsive agency, it’s supposed to respond to policy directives of the state department and it refuses to do so,” he explained.
The agency was created during the Kennedy administration in 1961 to distribute global humanitarian aid. It is to receive its overall policy guidance from the secretary of state.

“There are a lot of functions of USAID that are going to continue, that are going to be part of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy,” Rubio said.
“Every dol …

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