RUBIO: USAID rife with “rank insubordination” — “we had no choice but to take dramatic steps

RUBIO: USAID rife with “rank insubordination” — “we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control."

"They have basically evolved into an agency that believes that they're not even a U.S. government agency...they're completely unresponsive. They just don't consider that they work for the US."

"They just think they're a global entity and that their master is the globe and not the United States. And that's not sustainable."

“The goal was to reform it. But now we have rank insubordination. Their basic attitude is we don't work for anyone. We work for ourselves. No agency of government can tell us what to do."

."There are things that are happening at USAID that we should not be involved in funding and or that we have a lot of questions about, but they're completely uncooperative. So we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control."