Trump administration officially shuts down USAID

Odaily Planet Daily News According to Xinhua News Agency, the Trump administration of the United States announced on the 1st that it would officially shut down the United States Agency for International Development, which has been in operation for nearly 64 years. U.S. Secretary of State Rubio issued a statement on the same day saying that the United States Agency for International Development officially stopped its foreign aid mission on the 1st, and some of the remaining projects that were in line with the Trump administration's policies were handed over to the U.S. State Department for implementation. The statement said that the United States Agency for International Development has spent more than $715 billion over the past decades and used American taxpayers' money to create a "global NGO industrial complex", but since the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, its work has "received little results... (aided regions) development goals are rarely achieved, instability is often exacerbated, and anti-American sentiment has only increased."