Secretary of State Marco Rubio took to the State Department Substack on Tuesday to ring the death knell of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

“This era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end,” Rubio proclaimed. “Under the Trump administration, we will finally have a foreign funding mission in America that prioritizes our national interests. As of July 1st, USAID will officially cease to implement foreign assistance. Foreign assistance programs that align with administration policies—and which advance American interests—will be administered by the State Department, where they will be delivered with more accountability, strategy, and efficiency.”

Rubio’s article announcing the end of USAID, titled “Making Foreign Aid Great Again,” represents the culmination of the Trump administration’s effort to bring USAID, and its constellation of nongovernmental organizations and client states, to heel. In the post, the secretary dispatches with the Left’s claims that the Trump administration is heartless for holding USAID accountable for its litany of failures in detail.

After Rubio’s announcement, a senior State Department official told The Daily........

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