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Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, confirmed that he is now the acting director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
During his five -year trip to Central America, Rubio announced the development of journalists while asking the press questions in a maintenance company, Aeroman, in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador.
Rubio said his frustration with Usaid goes back to his time in Congress, describing the agency as “completely without response”. It is supposed to respond to the guidelines of the policy of the State Department “and refuses to do it,” said the secretary, adding: “There are many use of usaid functions that will continue, that will be part of Northern Foreign Policy. -American, but must be aligned with North -American Foreign Policy. ”
During his confirmation audience, he recalled Rubio, said that “every dollar we spend and all the programs we fund will be aligned with the national interests of the United States and that Usaid has a story of ignoring -and deciding that they” Somehow, a global charity organization separated from national interest. ”
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The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, talks to journalists during a visit to the Aeroman Aircraft Maintenance Firm in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, on Monday, February 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool))
“These are taxpayers. Rubio said. “And this type of insubordination makes it impossible to perform a kind of mature and serious review that I think should have foreign help in general.”
“We are spending money on taxpayers here. It’s not Donors Dollars,” Rubio continued. “This is the dollars of taxpayers and we owe in the North village -american the guarantees that every dollar we are spending abroad is dedicated to something that favors our national interests. And so far, many people who work in USAID They just refused to do it. ”
Asked if he was currently in charge of USAID, Rubio said: “I am the acting director of USAID. I delegated this authority to someone, but I keep in touch with him.”
“And again, our goal was to allow our foreign help to national interest,” Rubio said. “But if you go to the mission after the mission and the embassy after the embassy around the world, you will often find that in many cases, usaid this region. Secretary of State, the National Security Council and the President” .
The American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, see how people go up to a repatriation flight linked to Colombia at Albrook Airport, in the city of Panama, on February 3, 2025. Rubio is Find in Panama on an official two -day visit. (Mark Schiefelbein/Pool AP/AFP through Getty Images)
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“It has been 20 or 30 years when people have tried to reform -and refuse to reform, refuses to cooperate with people; when we were in Congress we could not even get answers to basic questions about programs,” he said. “This will not continue.”
Usaid employees received Monday’s instruction from being out of the Washington Agency headquarters after Elon Musk announced that President Donald Trump had agreed with him to close the agency.
Thousands of USAID employees had already been fired and the programs closed in two weeks since Trump took office. Usaid employees also said that more than 600 additional employees had reported that they were locked up in the help of the help agency overnight. Those who were still in the system received emails saying that “in the leadership of the Agency” the building of the headquarters “will be closed to the staff of the agency on Monday, February 3.” You can no longer reach the Agency’s website.
Democratic legislators have protested the movements, saying that Trump has no constitutional authority to close USAID without the approval of Congress and decipher access to government sensitive information through its federal inspections and programs.
“This is a corrupt abuse of power that is happening,” said Senator Chris van Hollen, D-MD. “As my colleague said, it is not only a gift for our opponents, but also trying to close the agency for international development in executive order is clear.”
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, is a plane on the way to El Salvador at Panama International Airport Pacifico in the city of Panama on February 3, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein/Pool AP/AFP through Getty Images)
Rubio traveled to El Salvador on Monday after spending two days in Panama.
Prior to his departure, he observed a repatriation flight from the Tarmac, which carried 32 men and 11 women back to Colombia after they had crossed Darien’s gap and stopped in Panama.
The State Department said that these deportations send a strong message of deterrent and that the United States have provided Panama financial assistance to almost $ 2.7 million on flights and entries.
“Mass migration is one of the great tragedies of the modern age,” said Rubio, later in a nearby building. “It hits countries around the world. We recognize that many of the people seeking mass migration are usually victims and victims along the way, and it is not good for anyone.”
His trip is in the midst of wide freezing in the United States Foreign Assistance Orders and the work orders that have closed the United States -funded programs, including in the countries of Central America. The State Department said on Sunday that Rubio had approved the resignations for certain critical programs in the countries he visits, but the details of them were not immediately available.
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Monday deporting flight took place when Trump has been threatening actions against nations that would not accept the flights of his nationals in the United States, and briefly hit Colombia with penalties last week for initially refusing to accept two flights. Panama has been more cooperative and allowed the Third Country Deportees flights to land and sent migrants before they arrived in the United States.
The Panama President, José Raúl Mulino, reaffirmed this position and agreed on Sunday withdrawing from the China Belt Development and Infrastructure Infrastructure Initiative after Rubio warned him to reduce the role of China in channel operations. or to face it in North -American retaliation.
“What I expressed to President Molina, who looks, is a friend of America,” Rubio said Monday after El Salvador. “Panama is a strong partner, a United States ally. As the President has articulated, when we gave up the channel, we handed him to Panama. We did not return to China. So you arrive and what you arrive The two tickets controlled in the port, both entrances to the port.
Rubio added that Panama has “”He has been a great partner “to slow down the migration rate with Darien Gap.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
