NEW: Trump Administration Officially Terminates USAID

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday that the U.S. Agency For International Development (USAID) would no longer be sending foreign assistance across the globe, marking a formal end to the agency’s funneling of funds to leftist social programs and non-governmental organizations.

When announcing the shift on Tuesday, Rubio stated that USAID had for decades funneled money to programs that did not advance the interests of the United States. Any programs that the Trump Administration wishes to continue will be handled directly by the State Department, Rubio announced.

“Beyond creating a globe-spanning NGO industrial complex at taxpayer expense, USAID has little to show since the end of the Cold War. Development objectives have rarely been met, instability has often worsened, and anti-American sentiment has only grown,” the secretary wrote in a press release.

“This era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end. Under the Trump Administration, we will finally have a foreign funding mission in America that prioritizes our national interests. As of July 1st, USAID will officially cease to implement foreign assistance. Foreign assistance programs that align with administration policies—and which advance American interests—will be administered by the State Department, where they will be delivered with more accountability, strategy, and efficiency,” he continued.

The move comes after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) thoroughly gutted USAID as part of the Trump Administration’s initiative to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.

President Trump previously listed a number of the most absurd programs that were receiving USAID funding in a speech back in February. “Where’s the money being spent, right?” Trump began, before launching into a breakdown of taxpayer dollars flowing overseas and into obscure projects. One of the most staggering figures: $520 million for what Trump described as an “environmental study” related to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investments in Africa.

“I’ve always been one that paid a lot of money for my environmental studies, but you know, I pay like fifty thousand dollars—not five hundred and twenty million,” he joked.

Other eyebrow-raising expenditures included $40 million for “social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants,” $42 million for Johns Hopkins to drive social and behavior change in Uganda, and $70 million to fund a research center at Purdue University focused on developmental challenges, among hundreds of similarly bizarre programs.

On March 11, Rubio announced that the State Department had completed a six-week review and would cancel more than 80 percent of the agency’s programs, or 5,200 of USAID’s 6,200 programs, Fox News reported.