House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Brian Mast, R-Fla., called for the restructuring of the U.S. Agency for International Development, as opposed to its elimination, adding it should placed under the State Department.
On Sunday, Mast told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan, “I would be absolutely for, if that’s the path we go down, removing USAID as a separate department and having it fall under whether the other parts of the United States, Department of State, because of its failure.”
Earlier in the interview, when asked by Brennan if the Trump administration had plans to “dismantle or significantly shrink” USAID, Mast replied, “This is something I’m working on specifically in conjunction with Secretary [Marco] Rubio to make sure there’s the appropriate command and control of these agencies, where again, to make that same point, right now, maybe 10 to 30 cents … on the dollar is what actually goes to aid.”
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