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While the Dog Eleon Musk team continues its efforts to dismantle the main agency of the United States Government to distribute external aid, its employees abroad are stuck in forgetting. Workers at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is centered in dozens of different countries around the world, but reports from ABC and CBS news It indicates that the majority will be called unlimited to the United States.
In both the United States and abroad, the email of employees and systems at the United States Agency for International Development was suddenly cut, making it difficult to obtain official information about what may happen after that. “Everyone is very interested in our staff abroad and who are left mainly,” said one of the current employees in the United States in the United States. “We are not sure how we will make them safe home.”
WIRED has witnessed internal information that shows that the American International Development Agency leadership tried to collect a list of foreign employees worldwide on Monday. On Tuesday, Maraoko House, the newly designated foreign assistance director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs It was used to supervise The United States Agency for International Development, which was held with senior leaders of the Foreign Ministry Command them To return all employees abroad to the United States, according to CBS News. The news port also reported that Maruko said that their pillars will sit with the support of the US military if necessary.
On Tuesday afternoon, the United States Agency for International Development is still accompanied by their email accounts, received a notification that the agency in Washington, DC, will remain the headquarters closed during the remaining period of the week, according to a copy of the letter reviewed by WIRE. Some have received a memorandum from Marocco indicating that it was placed on an administrative vacation “until it is notified”.
The US International Development Agency did not respond to suspension requests. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to the requests for suspension.
on 10,000 people For the American Agency for International Development, nearly two -thirds of them are stationed abroad, according to the US Congress Research, a non -party policy research group that serves Congress (excludes the number of “institutional support” contractors). At the agency, there are more than 60 regional and national tasks and represent less than 1 percent of the total American federal budget in general.
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President Donald Trump froze all US foreign aids shortly after he took office last month. His administration later showed that programs that implement life rescue work such as providing medical and food assistance can receive humanitarian exemptions to continue, but a number of organizations around the world say that the operation is mired in confusion and chaos. Even the prevention of HIV and vital HIVs have fallen, WIRED said on Monday.
Earlier in the day, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, who controlled the representation of the US International Development Agency on Monday, speculated that if the aid organizations were suffering from misunderstanding, then this was a reflection of their inefficiency. “If some organizations receive money from the United States and do not know how to apply the waiver, I have real questions about the efficiency of that organization,” said Rubio. He added that some groups may have “intentionally sabotage” the process to make a “political point”.
When Senator was an American, Rubio repeatedly expressed his support for some US foreign aid programs. “External aid is not charitable,” he is He said on social media In 2017.
In 2019, Rubio He said he was working on “Obtaining Congress support for a multilateral humanitarian aid plan so that we can get food and medicine to the suffering of Venezuela.” (Florida, where Rubio, is home to the population of the great Venezuelan.)
In general, the American Agency for International Development provided nearly 130 countries in 2023. Senior beneficiaries of aid were Ukraine, Ethiopia, Jordan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigeria, South Sudan and Syria, according to research research service in Congress. .
The dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development is part of the “America First” agenda is broader by the new Trump administration, which includes the retreat of a number of international organizations and diplomatic efforts. On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order Withdrawal The United States of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
