During a trip to El Salvador on Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters he has been named acting director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), effectively subsuming the agency into the State Department. RUBIO: I’m the acting director of USAID. I’ve delegated that authority to someone, but I stay in touch with him. And again, our goal is to go in and align our foreign aid to the national interest. But if you go to mission after mission and embassy after embassy around the world, you will often find that in many cases, USAID is involved in programs that run counter to what we’re trying to do in our national strategy, with that country or with that region — that cannot continue…

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