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# Trump Appoints State Secretary Marco Rubio Acting Director of U.S. Aid

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## Video: Trump Appoints State Secretary Marco Rubio Acting Director of U.S. Aid

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_Published 2025-02-04. President Donald Trump's administration announced on Monday that State Secretary Marco Rubio has been appointed as Acting Administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).  Trump’s decision last week to freeze for 90 days the humanitarian aid that the United States provides to countries overseas was felt in places far from Washington, including Ukraine._


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## Transcript

I'm the acting director of USAID. I've delegated that authority to someone, but I stay in touch with him. And again, our goal was to go in and align our foreign aid to the national interest. There are a lot of functions of USAID that are going to continue, that are going to be part of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy. The attitude that USAID has adopted over the years is no, we are independent of the national interest. We fund programs irrespective of whether it's aligned or not aligned with the foreign policy. That's ridiculous. These are taxpayer dollars.

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