The US International Development Agency (USAID) faces his biggest threat since its inception more than 60 years ago, as President Donald Trump and his advisor for billions of Elon Musk spent a weekend attributing an agency that contributed to Washington’s most important source of foreign source source foreign assistance around the world.
The USAID staff -in -the -heading of the Washington agency has been instructed to stay outside early on Monday, according to the notification that is allocated to them. The USAID staff said they were following 600 employees who reported that they were locked from computer systems overnight.
Those who are still in the system have received the E -Stand in the Agency System, saying that “in the direction of the leadership of the agency” will be closed for agency staff on Monday, February 3rd. “
Musk, at the beginning of Monday, live session on X, the social media platform he owns, said Trump “agreed” that USAID should be closed.
“You have to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s out of repair,” Musk said.
Men’s comments come after administration put two main security chiefs on a USAID on leave Last week. According to reports from several American media, they refused to divert classified materials in limited areas to Musk’s Government inspection teams.
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Musk supervises the Ministry of Efficiency of the Government (Doge) in cooperation with Trump’s administration, with the fact of finding a way to release federal workers, cutting programs and reduction of federal regulations. Critics say that mechanisms and agencies already exist within the Government to highlight inefficiency and waste, including the Government Office for Liability. Inspectors General also help recognize lost taxpayers and yet Trump’s administration has already released several of them.
On Sunday, Musk responded to the user post about news, saying, “USAID is a criminal organization. It’s time to die.”
Democratic Congressman Jason Crow of Colorada replied in the post, characterizing him as “a wild non -judicial thing to say,” pointing to the role of USAID hunger and promoting democracy.
The leader of the Senatic minority Chuck Schumer from New York and other Democrats in Congress claimed that Trump had no legal authority to dissolve the agency, which was created by the rank of Congress during the Presidency of John F. Kennedy.
In the fiscal year 2023, the latest available data68 billion US dollars were obliged to in US foreign assistance in the range of disasters to the initiative for health and pro-democracy in 204 countries and regions. The USAID was responsible for about 62 percent of the total number, and the state department was followed by 28 percent.
“He was led by a bunch of radical lunters. And let’s take them out,” Trump told USAID reporters on Sunday night. On the same sequins, Trump seems to suggest that the White House will not always follow Musk and Doge’s recommendations.
Uncertainty, confusion around the world
Trump’s administration and Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed unprecedented freezing in foreign aid. Rubio said that there is a 90-day period for the analysis of the program and that those who offer “rescue”, including medicine, medical services, food and shelter, would exclude help from help, although what is qualified is not immediately clear.
“We don’t want to see people die and the like,” ” Rubio said last week in an interview.
The president’s plan for an ambulance to help AIDS (Pepfar), created by the administration of George W. Bush, is one of the programs that receive an exemption. The program is responsible for rescuing more than 25 million lives, a vast majority in Africa, providing HIV care services and treatment for life rescue, including testing and counseling, prevention and treatment of infections, including tuberculosis.
However, the UN AIDS program said in a statement that many African organizations that received funding Pepfar were closed in the confusion last week due to a break and “lack of clarity and great uncertainty in the future.”
“The world is confused,” aAaron MotsoleladaSouth Africa Health Minister, he said last week.
Africa could be particularly guessed According to administration moves, which include the intention of removing the US from the World Health Organization by January 2026. Congo saw the outbreaks of MPOX as a fight in the East, leading to a reversal, while civilian Sudan was fighting with cholera, malaria and measles.
Doge approaches of treasury data
According to reports from several US media, two USAIDs security officers – John Voorhees and Deputy Brian McGill – believed that the legally compulsory approaches to the Musk Doga team because they did not have enough security approval to access this information. Current and former US officials had knowledge of the incident and spoke on the condition of anonymity of the Associated Press because they were not authorized to share information.
Kate Miller, who serves on the Doge Counseling Board, said in a separate post that no classified material had approached “without appropriate security approval.”
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Development comes at the same time with reports that Doge got access to sensitive treasury data Including the S
As a result, Doge, among other things, could have had broad freedom to access the important data of taxpayers.
A member of the Democratic Congress Alexandria Fatigue-Cortez has characterized the activities of the team of Musk as “Fire with five alarms.”
“People have chosen Donald Trump as president – not Elon Musk,” she said on social media. “Having a left -wing billionaire, with your own foreign debts and motifs, raids in American classified information is a serious threat to national security.
Musk owns several companies that are necessarily subject to the regulation of the US government, including Tesla, Starlink, Spacex and Neuralink.
