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Sen. Joni Ernst , the Senate DOGE Caucus chair, wrote to Secretary of State Marco Rubio Wednesday detailing the U.S. Agency for International Development’s “anti-American agenda.”
Ernst charged that Trump’s “landslide victory” gave him a mandate for change, including upending federal agencies, including those with no accountability and with potentially “anti-American agendas.”The Hawkeye State senator listed many issues facing USAID, which include “falsely claiming classified aid data,” misleading Congress on the indirect costs of aid, and failure to responsibly steward taxpayer funds.
From my staff’s review of the data on USAID assistance to businesses in Ukraine thus far, it seems clear why USAID is trying to withhold information from Congress. Based on the in camera review, it appears that overthrough the Competitive Economy Program , Investment for Business Resilience , Credit for Agricultural Producers , and Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities programs with awards of up to $2 million each.
However, she revealed, “Even then, USAID refused to permit my staff to acquire the documents or take substantive notes on the NICRA rates. The lack of transparency was alarming because the NICRA rates far exceeded staff’s expected range of indirect costs allowed.”
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