USAID missions overseas ordered to shut down, staff being recalled: report

Overseas missions for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) person reportedly been told to unopen down and that staffers were being recalled to the United States by Friday. 

CBS News reported that Peter Marocco, the manager of overseas assistance astatine the State Department who was tapped by State Department Secretary Marco Rubio to tally USAID, told the agency's enactment that those who bash not comply volition beryllium evacuated by the military. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to USAID and the State Department. 

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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) office is seen connected Monday successful Washington.  (Getty Images)

USAID has travel nether scrutiny by the Trump medication implicit what it is spending. 

"For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers arsenic it funnels monolithic sums of wealth to the ridiculous — and, successful galore cases, malicious — favored projects of entrenched bureaucrats, with next-to-no oversight," the White House said Monday. 

USAID allocated millions of dollars for programs the Trump medication considers arguable and that often progressive diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives launched during the Biden administration, critics say.

During an interrogation with Fox News that aired Tuesday, Rubio said USAID has "basically evolved into an bureau that believes that they're not adjacent a U.S. authorities agency."

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives to ticker arsenic radical committee a repatriation formation bound for Colombia astatine Albrook Airport successful Panama City connected February 3, 2025. Rubio is successful Panama connected a two-day authoritative visit.  (MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/Pool AP/AFP via Getty Images)

"That they are a planetary charity. That they instrumentality the payer wealth and walk it arsenic a planetary charity, irrespective of whether it is successful the nationalist involvement oregon not successful the nationalist interest," helium said. 

The extremity was ever to betterment the agency, Rubio said, but that "now we person fertile insubordination." 

"Their basal cognition is: ‘We don’t enactment for anyone. We enactment for ourselves'," helium said. "'No bureau of authorities tin archer america what to do’."

Rubio said a communal ailment among U.S. embassies astir the satellite is that USAID isn't cooperative and "undermines the enactment that we're doing."

On Tuesday, Sen. Jodi Ernst, R-Iowa, said each dollar fixed to USAID needs to beryllium scrutinized.

In a bid of posts connected X, Erst noted millions successful assistance that were allegedly funneled to money bully causes ended up successful the hands of atrocious actors. 

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Employees and supporters stitchery to protestation extracurricular of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) office connected Feb. 3, 2025 successful Washington, DC.  (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

She noted $9 cardinal successful humanitarian assistance to provender civilians successful Syria that allegedly ended up successful the hands of terrorists, arsenic good arsenic different $2 cardinal spent connected Moroccan pottery classes and promotion. 

Other projects included commercialized assistance to Ukraine to wage for models to be Fashion Weeks events successful New York City, London and Paris and millions spent to assistance Afghans turn crops alternatively of opium. 

"The results: opium poppy cultivation crossed the state astir doubled, according to the UN," she wrote. 

 In this photograph the United States Agency for International Development logo is seen successful Virginia, connected February 21, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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"USAID asked, ‘Can you archer maine however to get however to get to Sesame Street?’ and ended up successful Iraq," she wrote successful different post. "USAID authorized a whopping $20 cardinal to make a Sesame Street successful Iraq."