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The future of the main American agency for foreign aid in doubt is after his website was dark, two main security officers were on leave, and Trump Ally Elon Musk marked the “criminal organization” that should die.
Assistant workers, diplomats and legislators are trying to think of a series of mean events at the US International Development Agency. His website is reduced, some officials have lost access to E -Studies and have been on leave, and there are suggestions to absorb into state department.
“President Trump spent two weeks harassing and eliminating USAID employees, and now his team is trying to completely push the agency,” Democratic senator Chris Coons said on Sunday.
USAID is an independent agency with about 10,000 employees around the world responsible for managing US help and development programs. Former President Joe Biden raised the Administrator of the USAID National Security Council. Trump did not appoint a new USAID administrator.
The State Department did not immediately respond to a comment request on Sunday on the status of the USAID website or its plans for the Agency. The USAID administrator works under the supervision of State Secretary Marc Rubioa, but he is an independent agency with his own budget.
USAID did not immediately respond to the commentary request.
Trump and his team made it clear that they wanted foreign aid to reconcile us with his “American First” platform. The USAID absorption in State Department could mean less money available for long-standing development and assistance programs in the US. It would reduce US consumption, but it could also harm humanitarian efforts around the world and allow China to fill in the void.
Brian Mast, a Republican chairman of the Home Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Sunday at the Nation Nation that USAID “probably shook the underground secretary Rubio.”
“I would be absolutely for, if this was the path we go, removing the USAID as a separate department and fell under.. Other parts of the United States.
Two major safety officials were placed on Saturday after refusing to allow Officers from the Musk Ministry of Efficiency of the Government at access to agency systems, including classified information, according to the person you are familiar with this issue. CNN He first reported the conflict. Dozens of other USAID career officers have also been helpful from last week, and some are charged with trying to prevent Trump’s instructions for the agency.
Trump has been answered by Musk -Doga to reduce what both men say is the cost of the US government.
On Sunday, Musk fired a series of criticisms of USAIDs on X, calling it a “criminal organization” and “evil”.
“It’s time to die,” he wrote.
Trump has already frozen billions of dollars in foreign aid. The immediate break has encouraged all parties to help with all parties in the humanitarian and development organizations involved in everything, from rescue medical activities to effort against narcotics for cleaning the water program. Hundreds are discharged or endangered, and in the coming weeks more cuts. Last week, State Department created an exemption for some frugal humanitarian aid.
The current and former officials said that the potential absorption of USAIDs could be the test case of Trump’s administration because it seems to have executive power.
“It seems that this administration is testing what they can be drawn to in the sense of acting unilaterally to transform the functions and trace of the US government in the way the Congress has not approved, the Congress did not approve, and the Congress actually forbade them to work in certain statutes “, said Tess Bridgeman, who worked at the Office of Legal Advisor State Department at the National Security Council during Obama’s administration.
