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Official says USAID contracts canceled and work is being folded into U.S. State Department
Summary
A staff member said multiple contracts at the U.S. Agency for International Development were canceled and some programs are being folded into the U.S. Department of State so foreign aid is treated as a tool of U.S. foreign policy rather than charity.
Speaker 1, a staff member, said multiple contracts at the U.S. Agency for International Development were canceled and that some work is being folded under the U.S. Department of State. “Yes. We canceled a bunch of contracts in USAID. Some were stupid and outrageous. Others didn't serve the national interest, and others we kept. And we are folding it under the Department of State,” the staff member said.
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