Rubio orders freeze of new funding for nearly all U.S. foreign aid programs

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sent an order to all U.S. diplomatic and consular posts instructing a pause on "all new obligations of funding, pending a review, for foreign assistance programs funded by or through the Department and USAID." The message was in line with the executive order President Trump signed on Monday to reevaluate U.S. foreign aid. 

The order, which was obtained by CBS News, said that across the U . . .