Guatemala City, Feb 5, 2025 (AFP) - Rubio says US to approve future aid in 'bottom-up' review

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2025-02-05

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday the United States would keep funding aid projects after a "bottom-up" review, after global aid staff were placed on leave en masse. "We are now going to have to work from the bottom up, instead of the top-down, to identify which programs should be specially designated and therefore exempted," Rubio told reporters in Guatemala. Rubio again charged that the US Agency for International Development (USAID......

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