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State Department formally shutters USAID after Trump court victory
« on: March 29, 2025, 06:37:35 am »
State Department formally shutters USAID after Trump court victory
Story by Josh Christenson • 12h

WASHINGTON — The State Department formally announced Friday it is closing the US Agency for International Development (USAID) after the Trump administration prevailed in a federal court case challenging the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cost-cutting actions.
 
“Foreign assistance done right can advance our national interests, protect our borders, and strengthen our partnerships with key allies. Unfortunately, USAID strayed from its original mission long ago. As a result, the gains were too few and the costs were too high,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.

Ex-DOGE official Jeremy Lewin announced USAID’s shuttering in an internal memo earlier Friday — and said the State Department “intends to assume responsibility for many” of the agency’s functions and programs, according to ABC News.

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Re: State Department formally shutters USAID after Trump court victory
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2025, 06:38:23 am »
Judge Boasberg must not have heard the case. :whistle:
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: State Department formally shutters USAID after Trump court victory
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2025, 07:21:31 am »
Quote from: rangerrebew on March 29, 2025, 06:38:23 am
Judge Boasberg must not have heard the case. :whistle:

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