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

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