“According to him, programs for the provision of urgent humanitarian assistance, including the supply of food and medicines, are not freezing”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“I continue to support foreign assistance. But foreign aid is not charity. It exists to promote the national interests of the United States. Every dollar we spend while I am a Secretary of State and while President Trump is in the White House, it will be a dollar that promotes our national interests, ”the Secretary of State said.
According to him, programs for the provision of urgent humanitarian aid, including the supply of food and medicines, are not freezing. However, all other initiatives should be revised.
Rubio added that if an organization receives funds from the United States and does not know how to go to the exception mechanism, then “real questions about the competence of this organization”, or before, “whether they deliberately sabotage it to express political opinion. ”
US Secretary of State, which is currently the responsibility of the head of the Agency for International Development (USAID), accused the agency of wastefulness, emphasizing that “in some cases 10, 12, 13%, perhaps, and less money from the USAID came to the recipient, and the rest They went to overhead, bureaucracy. ”
“We are not going to stop foreign assistance. We will have a foreign help that makes sense. We will have a foreign aid that works. We will have foreign help that will promote national interests. We will have foreign help that will benefit our reliable partners and our allies, ”Rubio summarized.
Earlier, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that he was the acting director of the USAID, but said that he had delegated these powers, so he would not manage the daily activities of the agency. He informed the Congress of the Agency’s reorganization in the letter, noting that some USAID parts may be absorbed by the State Department and the rest can be liquidated.
The White House is adamant about the need to reform the agency by publishing a statement that emphasized “wastefulness and abuse” that, according to him, exist on USAID, including $ 1.5 million, designed to “promote equality and inclusivity on working places and in the business communities of Serbia. ”
These include poverty control programs, health care programs, elimination of the consequences of natural disasters, as well as programs for promoting democracy and human rights protection.
The recent report of the US Congress Research Service (CRS) states that in the 2023 financial year USAID has managed more than $ 40 billion in total appropriations to support projects in about 130 countries. The top three were Ukraine, Ethiopia and Jordan. Afghanistan also entered the TOP-10 recipients of USAID financing.
Since the full -scale war of Russia against Ukraine, since February 2022, USAID has provided billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance, development and direct budget support to Ukraine.