Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Monday that 83% of the programs administered under USAID would be terminated as a result of a six-week review because they don't serve U.S. interests at home or abroad. 

"After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID," he announced via X. "The 5,200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States."

The post was not shareable when it was accessed on Tuesday, but here is a screenshot:

The post generated a host of negative comments about starving kids and how people around the world would suffer as a result of the cuts, so comments were eventually turned off.

Hypocrisy?

Rubio was also accused of hypocrisy for having previously supported USAID programs.

The 1,000 or so programs left after the cuts would be administered by the State Department as USAID shuts down, Rubio said.

Rubio credited DOGE for working long hours to review the USAID contracts and how the money was being spent.

The cuts will save $60 billion per year, but critics argue that "hundreds of thousands or even millions" of people's lives would be put in danger.

Foreign aid is only 1% of the US budget, but is the lion's share of aid around the world.

Some questions

The question is, are the programs being cut redundant? Are they administered effectively, or is spending wasteful?

Are the programs preventing foreign governments from taking responsibility for helping their own people?

The catastrophizing by various liberals and media outlets are not asking any of these questions, because they don't care. Orange man is bad and so is anyone who works with him, period and end of story.

Supreme Court gets involved

The announcement comes as the administration is reacting to a narrow 5-4 Supreme Court ruling that said the agency must pay $2 billion in contracts for work already completed by agencies whose contracts have been canceled.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberal justices for that ruling, earning them ire from the MAGA wing of Trump supporters.

Barrett, who was appointed by Trump, has proved to be a thorn in his side on several rulings even though she is plenty conservative.