Marco Rubio, foreign aid

Rubio: US walking away from ‘foreign aid that is dumb’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday the United States is walking away from “dumb” foreign aid, not from foreign aid entirely. “We’re not walking away from foreign aid,” Rubio said in an
The Truth About U.S. Foreign Aid: A Response To Secretary Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio’s foreign aid freeze and review asks if it makes America safer, stronger, and more prosperous. The evidence shows USAID does all three.
Marco Rubio supported USAID as a senator. As secretary of state, he backs gutting it.
On at least 12 occasions over more than a decade, Rubio praised USAID’s work, from hurricane relief to battling infectious diseases to aiding refugees.
Opinion
Secretary Rubio should take a page from Senator Rubio’s book on foreign aid
As Secretary Rubio presides over a foreign aid crisis of the Trump administration’s own making, he may want to remember his words of wisdom from the Senate floor.
Marco Rubio Defends Aid Freeze: 'The US Government Is Not a Charity'
The Trump administration's sweeping overhaul of U.S. humanitarian aid has thrown U.S. Agency for International Development, into turmoil.
Rubio: Foreign aid must serve America or end
Rubio stressed the importance of properly organized assistance and expressed concern about the inefficiency of spending $40 to $60 billion on foreign aid, commenting on the fundamental changes in the work of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Rubio’s years of strong support for USAID stand in contrast to his sudden criticism of the aid agency
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, newly in charge of the besieged US Agency for International Development, was for years a ...
What Rubio told U.S. diplomats about the future of foreign aid, as most programs paused
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told U.S. diplomats behind closed doors about how foreign aid will be distributed by the Trump ...
Rubio backtracks on near-total foreign aid freeze, issues humanitarian waiver
Secretary of State Marco Rubio backtracked on Trump’s near-total foreign aid freeze and approved potentially billions of ...
The US State Department says humanitarian assistance can continue. Foreign aid workers say that’s not happening
US-funded aid work around the world has been largely brought to a standstill, multiple sources tell CNN, despite Secretary of ...
Rubio foreign aid freeze leads to USAID staff suspensions and contractor terminations
Approximately 60 senior staff within USAID have been suspended, leaving the agency without clear leadership, five sources ...
The Associated Press on MSN13d
A US shutdown on foreign aid is hitting worldwide. Rubio adds more exemptions
U.S.-funded aid programs worldwide have begun firing staff and preparing to shut down their operations as an unprecedented Trump administration freeze on foreign assistance brings their work to a ...
The Independent6d
Marco Rubio tweet calling foreign aid 'critical' resurfaces as he talks about cutting USAID
During his time as a senator, Rubio called for transparency in U.S. foreign aid but was in general supportive. “Foreign Aid is not charity,” said Rubio in a post on February 28, 2017.
Ambassador Tells Rubio U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Would Cause ‘Major Vulnerability’ in Africa
Other diplomats across the continent are sending similar cables to the secretary of state to try to maintain lifesaving aid ...