Two major security officers of the US Agency for International Development have been placed on administrative leave, which is the latest in a series of suspensions and dismissals at the primary Humanitarian Assistance Agency.
President Trump considers the dramatic changes in USAIDs, while advisers are questioning where they overlap with other agencies or where his consumption is opposed to the president’s views.
The USAID Director John Vorhees and Deputy Security Director Brian McGill were placed on Saturday night, two sources were confirmed by CBS News.
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Vice President JD Vance is in charge of finding the following steps for USAID reform, to get to know one person with Trump’s decision. Vance spokesman refused to comment.
No executive command was immediate – officials are still in the planning phase, sources said last week. But the president is interested in reforming the agency, they said.
One option is to eventually fold it into a state department, but other options are on the table, for CBS News they are for CBS News.
Republican Ambassador Brian Mast, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House, which provides supervision over the State Department, said on Sunday on “Face the nation with Margaret Brennan“That USAID” is likely to be closer to the secretary of Rubio. “USAID already reports to the Secretary of State, but Trump’s administration observes ways to combine or bend it into a state department.
The grease did not describe in detail what concrete changes would be made, but indicated that he intended to launch changes through congress. USAID was founded in 1961.
“I would be absolutely for, if this was the path we go, removing the USAID as a separate department and fell under whether the other parts of the United States, the Ministry of the State, because of its failure,” argued the grease on “face the nation.”
