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USAID shake up: Secretary of State Marco Rubio put in charge of agency | LiveNOW from FOX
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8:44Now PlayingUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been appointed as the acting administrator of the US Agency for International Development, he confirmed while speaking to reporters in El Salvador.
"I am the acting director of USAID," Rubio said. "I've delegated that authority to someone but I stay in touch with him."
Rubio was asked about the developing story while on an aviation tour of a maintenance facility near San Luis Talpa, El Salvador.
"My frustrations with USAID goes back to my time in Congress. It's a completely unresponsive agency, it's supposed to respond to policy directives of the state department and it refuses to do so," Rubio said.
Earlier in the day, Elon Musk announced that President Donald Trump had agreed with him to shut down USAID. Staffers of the agency were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters, and yellow police tape and officers blocked the agency’s lobby.
“It became apparent that it’s not an apple with a worm it in,” Musk said in a live session on X Spaces early Monday. “What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair.”
Over the weekend, the Trump administration placed two top security chiefs at USAID on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Musk’s government-inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. official said.
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