First on Fox: Top brass State Council Question whether the role of the U.S. administration should include working “in charity” as the Trump administration has exposed mismanagement and overspending in recent years.
“No one argues about the charitable nature of foreign aid,” Pete Marocco, director of the Office of Foreign Aid, told Pete Marocco on Friday on Friday. “So, this leads to another question I raise today. Is the appropriate role of the government in charity?”
“If U.S. foreign aid reaches only 10% of its expected targets and the private sector reaches the right people 87% of the time, then it’s a basic, ancient question that we have to return and take seriously,” he continued. “For the right reasons, foreign aid must have the right hands of the right people.”
Marocco’s comments were detailed in an internal domestic memorandum obtained by Fox News Digital, which reviews meetings between government officials and about 25 faith-based organizations that work to engage these organizations in “candid discussions on how their work supports and enhances the U.S. foreign aid goals under the first U.S. framework.”
Fox Digital learned that the “Hearing Conference” meeting is invited only and chaired by Albert T. Gombis and secretary and director of global criminal justice in civilian security, democracy and human rights.
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In 2019, Pete Marocco of Bogota, Colombia. (Getty Image)
Elon Musk, Chairman of the Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE) In recent weeks, the Trump administration has been fighting the history of overspending and mismanagement reported by the U.S. International Development Agency. USAID is an independent American agency that was established under the leadership of the Kennedy administration to provide financial assistance to foreign countries.
Musk described the institution as “a venomous snake nest that hates America’s radical Marxists.”
Elon Musk describes the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as “a venomous snake nest that hates America’s radical Marxists.” (Annabelle Gordon/Reuters)
January, the President Donald Trump The freeze of nearly all foreign aid was sent through the agency, which has since terminated thousands of employees and appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the agency’s acting director, actions have gained a firm push from Democratic and federal employees.
The litigation was litigated, and the Supreme Court hit the government on Wednesday, when it denied its demand to block a lower court ruling that required the government to pay nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funds.
The Justice said in a 5-4 ruling that the lower court filed a deadline on February 26 that the Trump administration payments have expired and directed the case back to the District Court to clarify details of any other payments.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke on February 3, 2025 at Aeroman, an aircraft maintenance company in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
The internal State Department memorandum continued, Marloko explained to faith-based organizations that the Trump administration is “deliberately undermining the system to identify and resolve major issues.”
“As you know, we are reviewing the U.S. Foreign Aid Program,” the memo said of the director’s opening remarks. “This is challenging because the approach we take is very different from other comments. Our comments start from zero – a zero-based approach. This means we intentionally disrupt the system to identify and resolve major issues. Yes, this leads to unintended consequences of some programs, and these issues are resolved separately from this forum.”
He added: “The fact is: The American people have lost confidence in foreign aid. They have lost confidence in how we perform this work. But today you are here to think about big things and tell us how foreign aid works best.”
Trump went to Capitol Hill Tuesday night and delivered his first speech to the joint meeting of Congress since returning to the White House in January. During his speech, Trump celebrated his administration’s immediate stop to seek foreign aid.
President Trump celebrated his administration’s immediate stop in search of foreign aid in his speech to Congress on Tuesday. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“My government every day Trump said Tuesday night that we are doing to achieve the future that America deserves.
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In his speech, the 47th President continued that Musk and Dorje had $22 billion in government “waste” was identified in various federal agencies, including the United States Agency for International Development.
“There are $4 million in terms of diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships in Myanmar,” Trump said. “There are $4 million to improve social and economic inclusion for sedentary immigrants. No one knows what this is. What is the eight million in Los Angeles African countries promoting LGBTQI+, and no one has ever heard of it. The six million in empowerment of indigenous peoples in Central America and African-American Colombia.
President Donald Trump addressed at a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol on March 4, 2025. (Ben Curtis/AP)
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Democrats and administration employees opposed the Trump administration and Doge’s audit of the federal government, and some Democratic lawmakers even raised signs in Trump’s speech on Tuesday.
Breanne Deppisch and Andrew Mark Miller of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
