Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered some shocking data points about American foreign aid spending before the Trump administration reformed the system.
During testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, the top diplomat revealed that the White House discovered a foreign aid regime that was distracted and inefficient.
Only 12 cents of every dollar spent by USAID reached recipients.
“That means that in order for us to get aid to somebody, we had to spend all this other money supporting this foreign aid industrial complex,” Rubio said, per a State Department transcript.
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