US Secretary of State Rubio says he has become ‘acting director’ USAID | News Donald Trump
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed that he took over as an acting director of the International Development Agency of United States (USAID), Opportunating government office accused of providing humanitarian aid all over the world.
Speaking from El Salvador on Monday, Rubio described USAID as “a completely inappropriate agency.”
He also accused his officials of “disobedience” for not answering questions about consumption and priorities from President Donald Trump’s administration.
“In many cases, USAID is involved in programs that are contrary to what we are trying to do with our national strategy,” Rubio said.
“It’s been 20 or 30 years of people trying to reform it.”
The announcement on Monday comes after one billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s close advisor, invited USAID “Criminal Organization” and said the president It was agreed that this should be “closed”.
The Senior White House official also told Reuters news agency that Trump was thinking of connecting the agency with a state department to “significantly reduce the size of labor for efficiency purposes and to ensure that their consumption is in accordance with the president’s plan.”
The clerk said that Musk would oversee the effectiveness of this management: the billionaire is currently running the Department of the Efficiency of the Government, a non -governmental non -governmental council.
Trump also appeared in characteristic caustic expressions on Monday, saying that USAID was a “good concept”, but was overcome by “radical left lutinari”.
‘Humanitarian disaster’
The announcement comes in the middle of a Wide freezing On the side of help under Trump’s administration, which vowed to process us help abroad.
According to Trump’s executive command, billions of dollars in help are frozen until the 90-day examination. Thousands of performers have been released, and service providers pave the services around the world while waiting for a review.
Although a few renunciation programs have been approved, humanitarian groups have warned that the freezing of funding affects a number of services, from the cleansing of mines in war zones to the provision of preventive health care for infectious diseases.
That, in turn, could bring lives in immediate danger, they add.
On Sunday, non -profit boundaries (MSF) have warned that the “quickly dismantling” of the American humanitarian aid system “will cause a smooth humanitarian disaster that affects the millions of the most vulnerable people.”
A spokesman for the United Nations, Stephana Dujarric, repeated on Monday that freezing would have a “direct impact on life rescue activities”.
US funding consisted of 42 percent of all humanitarian financing that the UN followed last year. 2023, now issued an estimated $ 68 billion in foreign aid, Over 60 percent went through USAID.
Control questions
The control of Trump’s administration over the agency remained unclear on Monday.
The adoption of the 1961 foreign assistance law required the Government to create an agency to monitor the foreign humanitarian aid. USAID was organized as a result.
When USAID was first formed, they were now in the middle of the Cold War, and President John Kennedy used a program to suppress Russian influence abroad.
The agency advocates claim that USAID and other help programs serve the same purpose in the 21st century, offering a counterbalance to spread Chinese influence abroad.
Democrats also claimed that the president did not have the authority to completely dissolve the agency, which they claim should remain autonomous. Several lawmakers on Monday at Washington Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington held a makeshift protest.
“Today we are here to illuminate the crime that takes place before our eyes and support our huge US civil servants on USAID,” said Don Beyer representative of Virginia on outdoor speech.
He accused Musk of leading the effort of “examining the critical agency of the US government” and harassing his employees.
“This is the worst among us who attack the best of us,” Beyer said. “USAID was an invaluable pillar of US foreign policy and projected US authority abroad. His elimination only helps our opponents. “
On Monday, USAID employees have been instructed that the headquarters of the Washington Agency, DC, will be closed for the day.
US media reported over the weekend that the two best USAID officials have been placed on an administrative leave for attempt block individuals from the Government Efficiency Department from access to safe areas of the agency seat.
In response to a potential connection of a USAID -A state department, several Democrats in Senate issued letter saying that such restructuring must be “reviewed, discussed and approved by Congress”.
Senators also warned that any unauthorized approach to USAID’s headquarters “causes deep concern about protecting and protecting questions related to American national security.”
