The abrupt shutdown stranded many staffers and their families overseas, many of them awaiting U.S.-paid back payments and travel expenses back home.

The rapid pace, and the steps skipped in ending contracts, left USAID supporters challenging whether any actual program-by-program reviews had taken place.

The Trump administration is canceling 83% of programs at the US Agency for International Development and intends to fold the remaining programs under the State Department, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday.