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Brian Schatz: “Following Trump's executive order, Secretary Rubio and Peter…”

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Schatz Details Trump Admin's Destruction Of USAID, Deadly Consequences As Senate Considers DOGE Cuts

Published | Video Starts at 02:44

But when you move fast and you break things in the United States Agency for International Development, tens of thousands of people Parish. So let's start with how we got here. Following Trump's executive order, Secretary Rubio and Peter Morocco, the new director of the State Department's Office of Foreign Assistance, issued a Stop work order on all 6,200 grants and contracts worldwide. They also ordered an immediate pause on new foreign assistance spending. That meant that partners who had already completed work were not getting paid. Contracts that had already been signed couldn't be executed. (02:44–02:59)

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