The state’s internal memo reveals the high question of bronze whether federations should be ‘in philanthropy business’

First in the fox: The high bronze in the State Department is questioning whether the role of the US government should include “the business of philanthropy” after the Trump administration reveals a violation of mismanagement and excessive spending in recent years.

“No one will argue with the philanthropic nature of foreign aid,” Pete Marocco told, the director of the Foreign Aid Office, which sits under the federal umbrella of the State Department-said a group of confidence-based organizations on Friday. “So this leads to another question I did before you today. Is it the right government role to be in the business of philanthropy?”

“If foreign US aid is reaches only 10% of its target objective, and the private sector is reaching the right people 87% of the time, this is a fundamental, old question in which we must return and take it seriously,” he continued. “It is necessary for foreign aid to land in the right hands of the right people for the right reasons.”

Marocco’s comments were detailed in an internal Memorandum of the State Department received by the Fox News Digital that captured a meeting among government officials and a group of approximately 25 trust -based organizations that worked to engage organizations in a “honest discussion of how their work supports and enhances the goals of American foreign aid”.

The “Hearing Session” meeting was only the invitation and moderated by Albert T. Gombis, acting under the secretary for civil security, democracy and human rights, and the director of global criminal justice, Fox Digital learned.

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The head of the Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) Elon Musk and the Trump administration have been in the war in recent weeks against the United States Agency on the history of reported international development and mismanagement. USAID is an independent US agency that was established under Kennedy’s administration to administer economic assistance to foreign nations.

Musk has characterized the agency as “a nest of a radical left Marxist Viper who hate America”.

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In January, President Donald Trump issued a nearly freezing freezing of foreign aid through the agency and has since completed thousands of employees and has appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the Director of the Agency’s office, the movements that have received reactions from Democrats and federal employees.

The freezing of payments was hit with a lawsuit, with the Supreme Court on Wednesday dealing with a stroke when she denied her request to block the decision of a lower court for the administration to pay nearly $ 2 billion in foreign aid money.

In a 5-4 ruling, judges said that a term of February 26 imposed by a lower court for the Trump administration to pay funds had already expired, and directed the case again to the District Court to clarify any additional details on the payment.

The internal memo of the State Department continued that Marocco explained to the group of trust -based organizations that the Trump administration is “deliberately disrupting the system to identify and root important problems” with its foreign aid programs.

“As you know, we are in the midst of conducting a review of US foreign aid programs,” the memorandum told the director’s opening speeches. “It is challenging because we are taking a very different approach from other reviews. Our review is starting from zero-based zero-based methodology. This means that we are deliberately disrupting the system to identify and root important problems. Yes, this is causing unintentional consequences for some programs, and those issues are being addressed separately by this forum.”

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“The truth is: the American people have lost faith in foreign aid. They have lost faith in the way we do this job. However, today you are here to think greatly and tell us how foreign aid can be optimal effective,” he added.

Trump went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday evening to give his first address at a joint congress session since he returned to the White House in January. In the speech, Trump celebrated his immediate pause of his administration for foreign aid.

“Everyday my administration is struggling to give the change that America has to bring a future that America deserves, and we are doing it,” Trump said on Tuesday evening. ‘This is a time for big dreams and bold action. After taking office, I imposed an immediate freezing for all federal employment, a freezing in all new federal regulations and a freezing for all foreign aids. ”

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The 47th president continued in his speech that Musk and Doge have Identified $ 22 billion in government “waste” in various federal agencies, including USAID.

“Forty -five million dollars for diversity, capital and scholarships in Burma,” Trump said as various federal waste examples shocked. “Forty million to improve the social and economic involvement of sedentary migrants. No one knows what it is. Eight million to promote LGBTQI+ in the African country of Lesoto, which no one has ever heard. Sixty million dollars for indigenous peoples and Afro-Columbian empowerment in Central America. Eighty million.

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Democrats and government employees have rode against the Trump administration and Doge’s work by controlling the federal government, and some Democratic lawmakers even kept signs reading “Musk lies” during Trump’s address on Tuesday.

Fox News Digital’s Breanne Depisch and Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.