US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that America is not giving up on foreign aid, but the process and structure must be reorganized to take into account the national interest. He said this in an interview with the host of the Patriot podcast on SiriusXM.
Rubio noted that the United States is not giving up on providing foreign aid and assured that America “will be involved.”
“I think that the right foreign aid is good for the country, but it has to be the right one,” he said.
In his opinion, the idea that the United States “should spend $40 to $60 billion on foreign aid and that all of that money is spent on reasonable purposes is absurd.”
“Some of that money is spent inefficiently,” he said.
According to him, it is necessary to review all foreign aid, a significant part of which goes through USAID, and another part through the State Department.
“Identify projects that truly support our national interests and continue funding those initiatives, and get rid of those that are a waste of money or even contrary to our interests in the world,” Rubio is sure.
Now, according to him, the United States has suspended all foreign aid in order to analyze all projects. Those that do not make sense will be eliminated, and those that do make sense will be preserved and perhaps strengthened.
In the first days of the US presidential administration, funding for international aid through the USAID agency, which Trump, according to him, wants to eliminate, was suspended.