Rubio and Vance in Oval Office meeting.
In a recent interview, Vice President JD Vance confirms Secretary of State Marco Rubio findings during an audit of USAID that there is massive waste and corruption in foreign aid.
Following the audit Rubio announced that 83 percent of programs will be canceled.
In March, Rubio shared, “After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.”
“The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.”
“In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department.”
“Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform.”
After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.
The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.
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— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 10, 2025
When discussing the waste of American taxpayer funds, and the impact of much needed aid not actually reaching those in need, Vance shared, “So we send $100,000 to this group to buy food for poor kids in Africa, okay.”
“And what actually happens is it’s not $100,000 that go to the food for the poor kids in Africa. The NGO, the non government organization that gets that money, contracts it out to somebody else, and then they subcontract it. So there’s like three or four middlemen.”
“Marco Rubio, who’s the Secretary of State, he’s a very good friend. What he told me is that his best estimate, after he had his team look at it, is that 88 cents of every dollar was actually being collected by middlemen.”
“So every dollar we were spending, humanitarian assistance, 12 cents, was actually making it to people who needed it.”
“That’s crazy.So there’s a lot of waste, man.”
Watch:
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