Secretary of State Marco Rubio is signaling that the Trump administration has finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development. Rubio made the announcement Monday in a post on X. Rubio says the administration is cutting 83% of USAID's programs and he will move the remaining aid programs under the State Department. Meanwhile, a federal judge said Monday that the administration could no longer simply sit on the billions of dollars that Congress had provided for foreign aid — but stopped short of ordering Trump officials to revive the terminated programs.

Trump on Jan. 20 issued an executive order directing a freeze of foreign assistance funding and a review of all U.S. aid and development work abroad. Trump charged that much of foreign assistance was wasteful and advanced a liberal agenda.

Rubio’s social media post Monday said that review was now “officially ending,” with some 5,200 of USAID’s 6,200 programs eliminated. Those programs “spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States,” Rubio wrote.

He said about 1,000 remaining contracts would now be administered by the State Department.

Democratic lawmakers and others call the shutdown of congressionally funded programs illegal, saying such a move requires Congress’ approval.