Trump Action Archive

Supporting reports

• Secretary Rubio and State Department officials publicly name recipients of terminated aid programs — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and staffers from the "Department of Government Efficiency" publicly named some programs cut in previous reviews of foreign assistance. State Department officials have warned that public identification of aid recipients in authoritarian nations could expose vulnerable individuals and minorities to retaliation by their governments, as most DRL programs are not listed publicly precisely because they support at-risk populations.

Supporting reports

• Samuel Samson recommends redirecting DRL funds to Afrikaner resettlement and Marine Le Pen legal defense — Samuel Samson, a recent college graduate appointed as senior adviser to the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, recommended in a DRL white paper that congressionally appropriated foreign assistance funds be redirected to support the resettlement of Afrikaners to the United States and to fund the legal defense of French far-right politician Marine Le Pen. Samson also led a State Department delegation meeting with National Rally officials in late May and wrote a controversial post on the State Department's Substack criticizing the labeling of Germany's Alternative für Deutschland as extremist. It is unclear whether his recommendations were adopted by DRL leadership.