Marco Rubio appointed as acting director of USAID as Trump, Musk work to shut it down

Marco Rubio has been appointed the acting director of USAID Monday.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he is the acting administrator of the US Agency for International Development with Elon Muska and Donald Trump want to shut down. USAID‘s headquarters was closed Monday and the employees were sent a mail at night asking them to remain at home today as the future of the agency hangs in the balance. The website of the agency and the social media accounts went dark and thousands of personal services contractors and civil servants lost access to email and SAID systems overnight.
“At the direction of Agency leadership, the USAID headquarters at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, D.C. will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, February 3, 2025. Agency personnel normally assigned to work at USAID headquarters will work remotely tomorrow, with the exception of personnel with essential on-site and building maintenance functions individually contacted by senior leadership,” said the email.

What will happen to USAID?

The agency could be entirely shut down and placed under the umbrella of the state department as Marco Rubio has been appointed as the acting director.
“With regards to the USAID stuff, I went over it with (the president) in detail and he agreed that we should shut it down,” Musk said in a X Spaces conversation early Monday. Donald Trump agreed and said USAID has been run by a bunch of radical lunatics and they will be purged first and then a decision will be taken about the future of the agency.