Bush directly criticized the Trump administration's move to fold the U.S. Agency for International Development into the State Department on Monday during a video tribute for the agency's staffers.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the closure of USAID on Tuesday, saying “this era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end. Under the Trump

The videoconference marked the end of USAID's 63-year run as an independent agency before its absorption into the State Department.