Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the impending end of the U.S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ).

In a social media post, Rubio recalled a recent Labor Day joke with President Donald Trump about holding four jobs.

“He told me to give one to my friend Russ Vought . So I did,” Rubio posted .

Vought is Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Trump administration. Rubio made clear that turning over the job to budget oversight meant ending the office altogether.

“Since January, we’ve saved the taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. And with a small set of core programs moved over to the State Department, USAID is officially in close out mode,” Rubio wrote. “Russ is now at the helm to oversee the closeout of an agency that long ago went o

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