The Trump administration canceled 83% of U.S. foreign aid contracts, totaling 5,200 out of 6,200 contracts.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that these contracts, which amounted to billions of dollars, did not serve the U.S.’s core national interests and sometimes even harmed them.

The remaining 1,000 contracts will be managed by the State Department, which recently absorbed USAID, NPR has reported.

Rubio also thanked the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, for implementing “historic reform.”

Written by B.C. Begley