The State Department has surpassed $200 million in foreign grants funded by taxpayer dollars, according to a memo obtained by Washington Free Beacon.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has significantly reduced approximately $214 million from the 139 grants provided by the agency. It focused on foreign aid programs that included the $14.6 million “Media Sustainability” programme, the UK “Media Diversity” grant, and the $500,000 “Media Diversity” grant for “Environmental Revival.” According to For a free beacon. The cuts were made with support from the Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which began supporting agents in February with a supplemental review of the grant.
“U.S. taxpayers should not fund Lebanon’s erroneous programs such as “building immigrant domestic workers-led movements” and “putting out trolls.” “Rubio in the UK I said X Tuesday. “We are rebuilding our agency that focuses on putting America first, wiping away the chaos that the previous administration left.” (Related: After taking torches to wasteful funding, Trump’s state department notches around $60 billion in “savings,” the memo says.
(LR) US Vice President J.D. V. D. Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem and US White House Secretary Susie Wills will be attending a bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump and El Salvador President Naive Buquel in the White House offices of Washington.
In February, the State Department drastically cut nearly $600 billion from more than 4,000 continued grants worth $4.4 billion, and another $54 billion cut in multi-year awards overseen by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), according to a memo provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
USAID allocated more than $40 billion in foreign aid in 2023. According to To the Parliamentary Research Service. The State Department is currently fully overseeing USAID along with Rubio. Serving As a proxy administrator for the group.
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It turns out that USAID has wasted millions of dollars on numerous extra programs, including supporting LGBT missions overseas and left-leaning nonprofits in their homes that have encouraged left-wing protesters.
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The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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