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February 04, 2025

President Donald Trump and his team are having discussions about merging USAID into the State Department in order to significantly reduce the size of the agency's workforce for efficiency purposes, a senior White House official told Reuters on Monday.

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The Trump administration planned to send a notification to Congress soon on Trump's plans to revamp USAID, the official said. Trump has entrusted Elon Musk to oversee the project, the official added. "There are discussions about merging USAID into the State Department to significantly reduce the size of the workforce for efficiency purposes and to ensure their spending is in line with the president's agenda," the official said.

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been made acting administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), ABC News reporters said on X on Monday, citing multiple sources.

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