Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has declared that the staff has been closed out of the Washington DC headquarters and the White House has confirmed that the White House is integrated with the Ministry of State, so that it is an agent of the United States International Development Agency (USAID) surrounded by Monday. 。 。
The institution has become a touch point of the Trump administration’s efforts to deprive the federal expenditure of the federal expenditure in recent days through the so -called “government efficiency” (DOGE) of the so -called “government efficiency” of Elon Musk.
The two senior USAID security officials stopped on Sundays to block DOGE staff in the restricted area the day after the institution website became offline, and MUSK “exceeded repair” and closed. I posted it to X that it was needed.
He talked to the reporters on Monday in the official visit to Jerusarvador, and told the reporters that he had undergone the USAID rule to “align” Trump’s priority.
“Our goal was to match foreign assistance to national interests,” he said.
“If you go from the mission after the embassy around the world and the mission after the embassy, you are often involved in a program that is contrary to what we are trying to do in the national or regional national strategies. I can’t continue.
Agency is about $ 43 billion in food, humanitarian, and other assistance, including clean water programs and pharmaceuticals, to about 130 countries. The staff was told not to report his work on Monday morning by midnight email on Sunday.
Apart from that, the White House’s sources stated on Monday that Trump and the administrative authorities are discussing the merger of USAID to the Ministry of State, and will soon send a notification to the parliament on his plan. Reuters reported.
An unknown official said that the goal was to significantly reduce the scale of labor due to efficiency and guarantee that their spending is in line with the president’s agenda. “
A billionaire mask, who repeated USAID and called a “criminal organization,” said he had discussed his plan to close it with Trump -he agreed.
“I actually checked it a few times (and),” Is it okay? “And we are closed,” the Washington Post was reported.
USAID is the world’s largest donor. In fiscal 2023, the United States received $ 72 billion from the health of women in conflict zones to clean water, HIV/AIDS treatment, energy security, and corruption prevention work. It provided 42 % of all humanitarian support tracked by the United Nations in 2024.
Trump has ordered a global frozen for most US -US support as part of his “American first” policy, which has already sent shockwave all over the world. An outdoor hospital in Thai refugee camps, the clearance of the war zone, and the drugs that suffer from illnesses such as HIV are one of the programs that are at risk of exclusion.
It was reported on Sunday that DOGE workers, an unofficial government division without a mission approved by Congress, have also gained access to very sensitive databases and federal payment systems by the United States Finance. 。
According to WIRED MAGAZINE, the DOGE team is led by six “young and inexperienced” engineers, 19 to 24, and one of them is still in college. The decision by the new Finance Secretary Scott Bessent is determined to permit the details of the personal data of millions of Americans and the details of the public contractors who are directly competing with their own business. This caused conflicts of interest.
DEVEX, a media platform in the global development community, has obtained a copy of the e -mail sent to a USAID employee working at the Washington DC Ronal Draganville headquarters. A few hours later, a security director, John Bowhs, was sent on a “management leave” on Sunday.
Later, DOGE managed the building access system and locked out employees to read emails. The sources also stated that the department also asked for personnel files and turn -style data.
Democrats and other critics have accused the USAID target by the mask and the Trump administration. It was a wider and determined push by Trump to control the large chunks of the federal device among the second presidential positions.
The Democratic Party’s Senator Brian Shaszz, a member of the Democratic Senator, was allowed to be active again on Monday in Wall Street Journal, and the administration stopped his “authoritative action” He said he had all the candidates.
For this kind of movement, the Republican Senate, John Tune, needs to spend valuable floor time to move Trump’s candidates through the confirmation process.
Chris Van Holen, a Democratic Senator Maryland, joined a party colleague at a press conference held at the USAID headquarters on Monday, accused the mask for dismantling agencies.
“This is clear and the current dangerous for the future of our country. Do not make mistakes. This effort by Eron Musk and so -called DOGE is to close the agency. Enemies, Russia, China,, It is an absolute gift for Iran, “he said.
“This has nothing to do with making the US government more efficient, and it is related to helping and hiring enemies around the world.”
