Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said a thorough review of spending at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is necessary after the Trump administration’s efforts to overhaul the institution.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was previously an independent agency designed to provide assistance and development assistance from poor countries, but since February, President Donald Trump installed Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the agency oversees the organization when it fears the United States has not raised core interests. Since then, the agency has faced layoffs and has been absorbed to the State Council.

According to Risch, scrutiny of USDA spending has increased.

"The money we spend on this has to be reviewed," Risch said at an event at the Hudson Institute, a think tank in Washington, on Wednesday.

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Risch said that within weeks of the Trump administration, he and others, including Rubio, evaluated a list of plans that detailed $3 million in funding to “promote democracy in Lower Slobovia.” According to Risch, the description does not provide enough information, which totals up to billions of dollars must be reviewed.

"Lower Slobbovia" is a fictional place and a term used by Americans to describe an underdeveloped foreign country.

“We can do better, not only in how much money we spend, but in terms of spending,” Ritchie said. “So if you say, well, we are eliminating the program, be careful not to say, ‘Oh, that means we’re going to get rid of human rights.’ Look, America is human rights.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) targets the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to eliminate wasted spending. The agency has been under fire for many funding options, including a plan for a plan to “improve diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbian workplaces and business communities” and a plan for “DEI Musical” in Ireland.

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As a result, Rubio announced on March 11 that the State Department completed a six-week review and would cancel more than 80% of the U.S. International Development Program - cutting about 5,200 of the U.S. International Development 6,200 programs.

Additionally, Fox News Digital was the first to report later in March that the State Department plans to absorb the rest of its operations and planned operations, so it will no longer act as an independent agency.

The move means canceling thousands of employees to enhance existing “life-saving” foreign aid programs, according to the State Department Memorandum Fox News.

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"Doing the right foreign aid can promote our national interests, protect our borders and strengthen our partnerships through key allies," Rubio said in a statement to Fox News' digital numbers in March. "Unfortunately, the USAID deviated from its initial mission a long time ago. So the benefits are too little and the costs are too high."

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“We are repositioning foreign aid programs to align directly with what is best for the United States and our citizens,” Rubio said. “We are continuing to carry out basic lifesaving programs and make strategic investments to strengthen our partners and our own country.”

Meanwhile, Democrats slammed the agency’s restructuring and marked the move as “illegal.”

“The destruction and demolition of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by Donald Trump and Elon Musk is not only a disastrous foreign policy, but also an opposition to our national security interests; it is clearly illegal,” the top Democrat of Rep. Gregory Meeks, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement in March. “Congress has created a law that will build U.S. International Development as an independent body and have its own appropriations that only Congress can eliminate.”