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by Charlotte Hazard
Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Monday that he is now the acting administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
He confirmed the change during an overseas trip to El Salvador.
“There are a lot of functions of USAID that are going to continue, that are going to be part of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy,” he also said during a press conference in El Salvador.
The change follows billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who leads the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying he and President Trump are going to close the agency.
“We’re shutting it down,” Musk reportedly said earlier Monday in an audio conversation on X Spaces, part of the social media platform X. “With regards to the USAID stuff, I went over it with [the president] in detail and he agreed that we should shut it down.”
However, Trump had not confirmed by Monday afternoon that he was shuttering the agency.
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Charlotte Hazard is a reporter for Just the News.
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