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The U.S. Agency for International Development, which funds everything from polio eradication in Indonesia to DEI projects in Serbia, has closed its headquarters and told its staff they're going on administrative leave. Is this an America First end to foreign aid, or merely a restructuring, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggests? And can President Trump do this without Congress?
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