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Published on: 03/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Marco Rubio has taken over as acting director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Rubio also accused its officials of “insubordination” for failing to answer questions about spending and priorities from President Donald Trump. Monday’s announcement comes after billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s close adviser, called USAID “a criminal organization” and said the president agreed it should be “shut down” Doctors Without Borders has warned that the funding freeze impacts an array of services, from clearing landmines in war zones to providing preventative healthcare for infectious diseases. US funding accounted for 42 percent of all humanitarian funding tracked by the UN last year. In 2023, the US issued an estimated $68bn in foreign assistance. Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia accuses Musk of leading an effort to "ransack a critical agency of the US government" On Monday, USAID employees were instructed that the agency’s headquarters in Washington, DC, would be closed for the day.

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