Rubio Unleashes Fresh Broadside Against USAID on Its Final Day
'Beyond creating a globe-spanning NGO industrial complex at taxpayer expense, USAID has little to show since the end of the Cold War,' Rubio said in a Substack post, using the acronym for non-governmental organization. 'This era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end.'
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