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The administration of President Donald Trump, as part of his government-wide efficiency campaign being pursued by his White House Department of Government Efficiency, is sending dismissal notices to more than 9,000 USAID workers.

The Trump administration will continue to offer aid to recipients around the globe, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. But it "is going to be foreign aid that makes sense and is aligned with our national interest," he said.

The U.S. Agency for International Development has been one of Trump's first and biggest targets for his efficiency plans.

Rubio, in a news conference with the president of the Dominican Republican, said it would have been better to clean up and restructure the agency from the inside out.

But he said that was impossible. "When we tried to do it from the top down by getting cooperation from the central office and USAID, what we found instead are people trying to use the system to sneak through payments and push through payments despite the stop order. We found people that were uncooperative in terms of giving us information and access."

The report noted Trump's reaction was to order it shut down.

"USAID is driving the radical left crazy, and there is nothing they can do about it because the way in which the money has been spent, so much of it fraudulently, is totally unexplainable. The corruption is at levels rarely seen before. Close it down," Trump said in a statement.

A report in the Daily Mail revealed some 9,400 USAID employees are losing their jobs, and only about 600 "essential" workers will remain.

Elon Musk, of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, has called the agency a "criminal organization."

"Your tax dollars should be spent on America or the government should just tax you less," he wrote on X.

Hundreds of awards and contracts handed out through the agency are being canceled, the agency's Washington headquarters is closed and overseas employees have been given 30 days to return.

The employee unions, whose income will be hit with a dramatic collapse if there are more than 9,000 workers no longer paying union dues, have gone to court, claiming that Trump's management of the federal bureaucracy is unconstitutional.

A lawsuit by the American Foreign Service Association and American Federation of Government Employees claims Trump's actions are an "unlawful seizure" of a federal bureaucracy.

Officials have said the USAID structure is being shut down, but it's duties will be moved to the State Department.

The White House repeatedly has unleashed lists of egregious USAID payments, including promotions for transgenderism and such, around the globe.