Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under a Trump plan to gut the foreign aid agency

They take the taxpayer money and they spend it as a global charity irrespective of whether it is in the national interest or not in the national interest,

he told Fox News in an interview on Sunday

Rustem Umerovdefense Minister

The Ukrainian sky is becoming more secure!”

Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said in a statement

But it is going to be foreign aid that makes sense and is aligned with our national interest,

he told reporters

Marco Rubiosecretary of State

USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that there's somehow a global charity separate from the national interest,

Rubio said

Not a single one of defendants’ actions to dismantle USAID were taken pursuant to congressional authorization. And pursuant to federal statute, Congress is the only entity that may lawfully dismantle the agency,

the lawsuit states

Marco Rubiosecretary of State

We’re not trying to be disruptive to people’s personal lives,

Rubio told reporters in Santo Domingo on Thursday during a joint media availability with Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader

Marco Rubiosecretary of State

We didn’t list them all, but we’re willing to listen to those.”

Rubio

J. Brian Atwoodunited States Under Secretary of State

A lot of people will not survive,

said Atwood, now a senior fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute