币界网报道:[Trump administration officially shuts down USAID] According to Xinhua News Agency, the Trump administration announced on the 1st that it would officially shut down USAID, which has been in operation for nearly 64 years. U.S. Secretary of State Rubio issued a statement on the same day saying that USAID officially stopped carrying out foreign aid missions on the 1st, and some remaining projects that were in line with Trump administration policies were handed over to the U.S. State Department for implementation. The statement said that USAID has spent more than $715 billion over the past decades and used U.S. taxpayers' money to create a "global NGO industrial complex", but since the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, its work has "received little results... (aided regions) development goals are rarely achieved, instability is often exacerbated, and anti-American sentiment is only increasing."