Internal USAID list provides snapshot of Trump cuts
A nearly 400-page list provided to Congress may give rare insight into the scope of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which have already roiled the global humanitarian community and shut down programs around the world.
Some of the cuts on the list appear to impact lifesaving services — such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria prevention, along with maternal and baby health — which would contradict a Trump administration commitment to continue such programs under the State Department’s umbrella.
Ending those programs would also hurt Americans, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement to The Hill.
“The Trump administration’s slash-and-burn approach to U.S. foreign assistance, including lifesaving programs, is putting Americans at risk from infectious diseases like Ebola and drug-resistant TB,” she said, referring to tuberculosis (TB).
“These cuts also hurt American farmers whose crops nourish severely malnourished people in conflict situations and diminish our global stature and ability to compete with global adversaries, like China and Russia.”
Other items on the list run the gamut from cybersecurity assistance to administrative resources like printers, conference tables and car maintenance.
The internal list, which has not been previously reported, was provided to Congress by a whistleblower. Democrats say it originated from the desk of Peter Marocco, one of the leading figures dismantling USAID alongside Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The State Department has yet to make available a comprehensive list of its terminated programs and did not respond to questions about the list obtained by The Hill.
A federal court earlier this month ordered the Trump administration to restart payments on programs initially labeled as paused and under review. However, some groups long funded by USAID say there’s no sign of payments being restored.
“In lieu of restarting payments they just went ahead and terminated all of these programs,” a Senate Democratic aide said. The Supreme Court ruled that the administration must pay out reimbursements for programs where funds were initially frozen. At least one aid group contacted by The Hill said it was starting to see some payments.
Rubio claims that he has conducted a thoughtful, methodological review to root out waste, fraud and abuse in USAID, without undermining lifesaving programs. Rubio, in a statement on March 10, said he was cutting 83 percent of the agency and terminating 5,200 programs. Court filings put that........
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