Trump’s administration reduces 90% of a foreign assistance contract of USAID, show documents
Pure cutting scale Trump administration In the search for the presentation of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), it was discovered, and nearly 15,000 grants worth $ 60 billion was set up, according to internal documents.
Grants amount to about 90% of foreign assistance contracts and come after viewing of the state department’s consumption.
The USAID AID has become an early target of Trump’s administration, with the president of a long -standing critic of overseas spending, claiming he does not use US taxpayers and go so far that those who run the top agency “radical madmen”.
The USAID AID has become an early target of Trump’s administration, with the president of a long -standing critic of overseas spending, claiming he does not use US taxpayers and go so far that those who run the top agency “radical madmen”. (Getty Images)
Republicans claim that it is wasteful, promotes liberal programs and should be introduced into state department, while Democrats say it saves life abroad and helps American interests stabilize other countries and economies.
All in all, Trump’s administration has announced that it will eliminate 5,800 of the 6,200 years of the USAIDs contracts, for a reduction of $ 54 billion. Another 4,100 of the 9,100 State Department scholarships are eliminated for a reduction of $ 4.4 billion, according to a state department’s department memory that has been examined by Associated Press.
Memo State Department described the administration as triggered by the Federal Court’s command, which he gave to the officials by the end of the day on Wednesday to raise the monthly block of Trump’s administration on foreign help financing.
“In response, State and USAID moved quickly,” targeting the side of the side of the USAIDs of the USAIDs of State Department in huge numbers for termination of the contract, the letter said.
In the memorandum, he said that officials “cleaned a significant waste arising from a decade of institutional outflow.” More changes are planned in the way USAID and State Department provide foreign help, it is said: “Wisely use dollars of taxpayers to improve American interests.”
OUR Supreme Court Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused the command of a federal judge who demanded that Trump’s administration pay around two billion dollars of foreign help funds by midnight.
Flowers and sign are placed outside the USAIDs 7 February 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
State Secretary Rubio confirms that he becomes a USAID chief
The verdict comes after Trump administration He asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to block the release of the US Financing Agency for International Development (USAID), which the federal judge required until midnight. Officials said they would not be able to obey the judge’s commands.
The USAID was erected in the early 1960s to act on behalf of the United States to give help around the world, especially in the impoverished and underdeveloped regions. The Agency now operates from 60 countries and employs about 10,000 people, two-thirds of which work abroad-most of the field work contracted to the organizations of third parties financed by USAID, according to the BBC report.
But the agency has come to considerable criticism because Trump and Elon Musk Department for the Efficiency of the Government (Doge) look to use waste, fraud and abuse in the Federal Government.
Musk compared the agency to “not an apple with the worm in it”, but “just a ball of worm”.
“You must basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s out of repair., Musk wrote on the x earlier this month.
Trump moved to the agency after imposing a break of 90 days after a foreign assistance. Trump’s administration plans to stifle the agency and intends to leave less than 300 employees at work of the current 8,000 direct employees and performers. Also appointed State Secretary Marco Rubio as an acting director of the USAID.
The news comes because thousands of employees were informed a few weeks ago. Some have been seen leaving Washington, DC, Last time on Friday, wearing boxes cut with messages that seemed to be focused on President Donald Trump.
The recently discharged US International Development Agency (USAID) carries messages with messages during Sundoff outside the USAIDs office, Washington, DC, USA, February 21, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
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Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, President of the Doge Senate, recently posted the list Questionable projects and programs, which says USAID has helped financing over the years, including $ 20 million to produce Street Street Street in Iraq.
A few more examples The complex consumption was discovered on USAID, including more than $ 900,000 in a “terrorist charity with a headquarters” called Bayader Association for the Environment and Development and Program of $ 1.5 million for “Pre-Diversity, Capital,, and involvement in Serbia in workplaces and business communities. “
Fox News’ Bill Mears, Andrew Mark Miller, Aubrie Spady, Deirdre Heavey, Caitlin McFall, Morgan Phillips and Emma Colton, as well as Reuters and Associated Press, contributed to this report.
