Secretary of State Marco Rubio, acting administrator for USAID, has said that the agency will likely face reorganization.
The Trump administration says it is eliminating more than 90 percent of foreign aid contracts and grants with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
In all, the administration stated that it would eliminate 5,800 of 6,200 multiyear USAID contract awards, for a cut of $54 billion. Another 4,100 of 9,100 State Department grants were being eliminated, for a cut of $4.4 billion.
The move to axe funding is part of President Donald Trump’s wider efforts to weed out government waste and fraud.
USAID has been one of the first targets of the new federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory panel led by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
The latest cutoff has created panic among the nonprofit organizations and businesses that launched legal action against the Trump administration. They argued that the funding freeze breaks federal law and has shut down life-saving programs around the world.
Court documents show that the Trump administration was handed a win on Feb. 26 when the Supreme Court allowed a freeze on foreign funding to continue.
This follows the government’s appeal of a ruling by a lower court that gave the Trump administration a Feb. 13 deadline to pay nearly $2 billion dollars for reimbursements on foreign aid-related contracts and grants for “work completed prior” to that date.
That deadline was unfeasible, the administration argued, and the order threatened to require the government to release federal funds “without confirming that those payments are for legitimate expenses,” the documents state.
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