Today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the administration's review of foreign assistance

has officially concluded and that the administration would cut 83% of USAID's programs and fold the

rest into the State Department. This comes as the administration appears to be ignoring a court

deadline, requiring it to pay $2 billion in debts to aid groups for work

already done. Nick Schiffen has been following all this, and he joins us now. So Nick,

tell us more about what Secretary Rubio announced today, and what's the status of that court

deadline? Secretary Rubio announced the cuts on post on X, saying, quote, the 5,200 contracts that are now canceled, spent tens of

billions of dollars in ways that did not serve and in some cases even harmed the core interests

of the United States. The State Department did not respond to messages requesting the list of the

thousand programs it did save or anything else that I sent

them today. As for that court deadline, as you said, the court ordered the administration to pay

$2 billion in debts to aid groups for work that has already been done by 6 p.m. Eastern tonight.

Two attorneys who are familiar with the legislation told me there has been a, quote,

trickle of payments but nowhere near an acceptable amount. And one of those attorneys goes on

to argue, quote, the government is intentionally dragging its feet. The whole process is overtaken

by political actors using these invoices for work already done as a cudgel to destroy the aid industry.

The attorneys also argued the administration is ignoring court orders from a month ago,

not to issue new terminations based on President Trump's initial inauguration night executive order

or Secretary Rubio's subsequent memo memo. The government, instead,

argued that on February 26th, no, our new terminations are not based on that executive order

or Secretary Rubio's memo, but based on a, quote, individual review by Secretary Rubio of all

13,000 contracts that state and USAID have. So let me just put those numbers up.

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