The U.S. is officially cutting 83% of the programs at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) following a six-week review, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on X.com.

It is unclear whether the Food for Peace program is one of those being eliminated.

“The 5,200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States,” Rubio said in a post March 10 on X, formerly Twitter. “In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1,000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department.”

Rubio thanked the Department of Government Efficiency and hardworking staff who worked “very long hours” to achieve “this overdue and historic reform.”

“Tough, but necessary,” DOGE leader Elon Musk responded to Rubio. “Good working with you. The important parts of USAID should have always been with Dept of State.”

Food for Peace

Various lawmakers proposed a bill in February to move USAID’s Food for Peace international  program under USDA.

The National Association of Wheat Growers and U.S. Wheat Associates, the overseas marketing arm for the industry, supported the move.

It’s uncertain whether Food for Peace would move under the state department, USDA or be one of the programs cut.

“We couldn’t answer that question with such limited information,” U.S. Wheat vice president of communications Steve Mercer told the Capital Press.

Capital Press has reached out to the state department for comment.