Secretary of State Marco Rubio is defending the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development and praising President Donald Trump’s widely panned proposal for the United States to take control of the Gaza Strip.

The U.S. Agency for International Development is the world's largest foreign aid agency, spending more than $40 billion in fiscal 2023.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio approves of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s idea to jail convicted criminals deported from the U.S. in his country’s megaprison. “We have offered the U.S. the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system,

El Salvador on Monday (February 3) offered to house in its jails "dangerous criminals" from anywhere in the world deported by the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said after lengthy talks with the Central American country's leader.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said El Salvador's president will accept deportees of any nationality, including violent American criminals imprisoned in U.S.