USAID has been disbanded in South America.
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Louder with CrowderOct 5, 2026
Sources show USAID was dismantled: its programs were cut 83% on March 10, 2025, and its remaining functions were transferred to the State Department on July 1, 2025, with operations ending in September 2025, which covers South America as well.
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… So, that's how you really have to track that spending. They were trying to up the campaign to get rid of him, to get rid of him. Now that it's gone, I mean, there's been, I think, there's been eight elections since USAID has been disbanded down in in South America, and none of them have gone left. Right? Does that really happen? I mean, fact check me if that's not true, but I heard that from very reliable sources. At least it's at least a trend, for sure. I don't know if eight is the actual number, but we do have references here; you can go check. …
Louder with Crowder · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Hudson Institute reports USAID's spending was frozen January 20, 2025, its programs canceled 83% on March 10, and remaining operations transferred to the State Department on July 1.[3]
Supports. CRS overview states Secretary of State Rubio announced that as of July 1, 2025, USAID would cease to implement foreign assistance.[2]
Supports. The Deseret News one-year retrospective says USAID was effectively dismantled and absorbed into the State Department by July 2025.[4]
Context. Wikipedia notes USAID legally still exists because only Congress can formally abolish it, so it was dismantled de facto rather than formally disbanded by statute.[5]
Context. AP reporting from February 2025 describes the dismantling's impact on USAID programs in Colombia, Brazil, and Peru, confirming the South American scope of the wind-down.[1][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 4 not rated
- 1USAID is going away. Here's what it's been doing in South Americaapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2U.S. Agency for International Development: An Overviewcongress.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Who's Afraid of USAID? | Hudson Institutehudson.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4What’s happened in the year since USAID was dismantled ...deseret.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5United States Agency for International Development - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6USAID is going away. Here's what it's been doing in South ...ap.org · not rated · cited for: context
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