EXCLUSIVE: State Secretary Marco Rubio He accuses USAID of “ranking disobedience,” adding “we had no choice but put this thing under control.” The best American diplomat made comments in an exclusive interview with Fox News in El Salvador, immediately after he announced that he would take over as a acting director of the humanitarian agency.
Rubio has blown up USAID because he is “completely irresponsible” by saying to Fox “that they do not consider them to work for now, they only think that they are a global entity and that their lord is a globe, not the United States, which is not what is not what is not that which is not what is not the statute says, and it is not sustainable. “
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Rubio refused to say whether the agency should “die” as the dog boss Elon musk He suggests, instead, emphasizing the goal has always been to reform it.
“There are things we do through a USAID that we should continue to work, what makes sense and we will have to decide, is it better through a state department or is it better through something, you know, a reformed USAID? That’s the process we work through.”
State Secretary Marco Rubio has accused USAID for “spraying” and other administrative defects in an exclusive interview with Fox News. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Despite the restructuring plans, Rubio said that the United States would remain “the most gentle nation on Earth,” but added, in a way that makes sense, it is in our national interests.
When asked if changes in USAID open the door for Communist cinema To increase his influence around the world, he ruined: “No, I mean, above all, they don’t do it now. If they were, they would have competed with us in these places. But my point is this, even if have done this, why would we finance things against our national interests or not further our national interests, whether China or not?
On Monday night, a group and union representing US workers in foreign services, Published a statement opposed by the actions of Trump’s administration trump related to USAID. “The US Association for Foreign Services (AFSA) strongly complains of administration decisions to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This will undermine US national security, can substantiate the congress authority and show a lack of respect for the dedication to the development of development professionals serving American interests abroad. “
Rubio goes to Panama, Latin America, to follow Trump’s agenda “Golden Age”
A wide interview followed after Rubio’s visit to Panami and in the midst of repeated warnings of President Trump that the United States “will return” the Panaman Channel because of the concerns that Chinese de facto operating control over him.
After a visit with the Panama President, Jose Raul Mulino announced that the Central American nation would leave the Chinese initiative for the belt and the road. Rubio greets the move, but tells Fox that this is not enough and that he hopes to see “additional steps in the days to come.”
Topshot – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio boarded a plane on his way to El Salvador at the Panama Pakifico International Airport in the City of Panama, February 3, 2025. He ruined Panama in a two -day official visit. (Mark Schiefelbein/Pool AP/AFP via Getty Images)
President Trump has announced a 30-day break on Mexico and Canada tariffs. Rubio acknowledges that “changes our economic relationship with our closest neighbors,” adding State Department not included in any negotiations that Canada become 51.
Despite the recent move of Venezuela to release American hostages and accept migrants who live illegally to the United States, the secretary Rubio said he still had no plans to recognize the Maduro regime as legitimate. Rubio added “Maduro knows that he now has many opportunities to cause serious damage to his regime.”
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Rubio, who is Cuban origin, says he “has no intention” to go to Havan as an American top diplomat “except to discuss when to leave.” Rubio continues his journey to the Western Hemisphere on Tuesday with stopping in Costa Rica and Guatemala.
