Transport containers packed with antibiotics and anti -malaria drugs that save lives are kept at Sudan Port. After a government contractor tied up in cash, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has expired after being forced to block the air conditioner. Million pounds of American soybeans tied to overseas refugee camps have been diverted to the warehouse instead.
According to non -profit organizations and agricultural industries, government organizations that paralyze the efforts to distribute essential foods, medicine, and other lifesaving goods around the world, relieve global poverty, and provide humanitarian relief. President Donald Trump’s mission group and federal member of the Congress to overturn the international development agency.
Despite the administration’s claim that “humanitarian support that saves life” is permitted, the government’s 90 -day freezing, a suspension order to consider the operation of an institution, and the rapid closure of the USAID headquarters Has stopped the aid distribution system. .
USAID is a website late on Tuesday, except for the designated person in charge of mission -critical functions, core leadership, and specially specified programs, almost all direct recruitment around the world will be administrative leave in the second half of this week. We announced that it will be placed. Those who are expected to continue their work will be notified by Thursday at 3:00 pm.
According to data from the federal government, labor is a type of contractor known as more than 10,000 direct employment and personal service contractor. About two -thirds of the staff work overseas.
The USAID provides billions of dollars of humanitarian support, and the funding that supporters say it provides more than 100 countries in just a part of the federal budget. It is not clear whether the amount of assistance is tied or how long the pause will last.
The future of the agency is now very uncertain. Trump says that it is “operated by an extreme madman,” and seizes it as part of his promotion to fundamentally rebuild the federal government, and the company’s spending and staff scrutinize it. Must be done. The Ministry of State has dominated USAID this week.
Even in the turmoil, there should have been a way to pass the help, but there is a problem. The process of applying for humanitarian exemption is new, suffering from confusion and delay. According to non -profit organizations, it is not clear how the administration defines the “life” assistance that can be continued despite freezing, or whether it is intentional to release funds.
“For more than a week, important life -saving programs such as food and medicine have been stopped,” said Tom Hart, president and CEO, president and CEO of InteractaSTERCATION, a non -government -based non -governmental organization. Masu. Their work. “It is a large waste of taxpayers and good intentions, and has a devastating humanitarian impact on troubled people.”
He said that even the exemption groups that distributed HIV drugs to save lives could not withdraw funds from the federal payment system and would hinder the ability to distribute drugs.
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According to the Farm Industrial Association, some transport containers, which have already been filled with aid materials on the way to their destination, have been detoured to the warehouse and are held in the United States and overseas ports.
According to Jenna Perry, who led the human health program of the American Soybean Association, the Industrial Trade Group, about 33,000 soy and soybeans used to treat severe nutritional deterioration in East Africa and other regions. It contains ton soybeans and soy products.
“Because there is an emergency feed sculpture, it should flow, right?” Joe Crammer, the director of the Michigan Bean Commission, said that it represented domestic bean cultivators. But he said it wasn’t. “Everything is freezing,” he said.
The indispensable confusion on the provision of food and medicine is rarely criticized by Republican members and Democrats.
“I recommend @Secrubio to deliver $ 340 million US foods, which are currently stagnant in the United States, to those who are in need,” Senator Jerry wrote about X. Masu. Salvation assistance is born. ”
R-La. Senator Bill Cassidi has urged the Trump administration to resume the distribution of HIV drugs under the initiative several years ago to fight HIV/AIDS.
“It’s a Republican Initiative, the most popular US program in Africa and the parent America,” says Casidi. At a clinic in Africa. This needs to be reversed immediately !! “
The Ministry of State did not respond to the comments. Moran and Cassidy spokeswoman said that there was no update.
The fierce effort to Stymie of USAID has urged many humanitarian groups to completely pause their work. Others are expanding back services, struggling to maintain the solvent financially because the USAID has stopped paying.
One of the senior humanitarian leaders has stated that their group has been nearly $ 50 million from USAID for the work completed in December and January.
“Because the air conditioner cannot be operated, DRC warehouses have essential drugs corrupt,” said the staff who said anonymously on retaliation fear. “We cannot continue the money in advance.”
The group also stated that the Trump administration has suspended that there are 500,000 dollar antibiotics, anti -malaria, and other essential drugs that are currently trapped in Sudan Port.
HART, the CEO of Interaction, has backed the group account.
Kaleb Brownlow, a former USAID advisor, states that suspension of sudden drug therapy such as HIV antiretrovirus, such as increasing virus volume and generating drug resistance, may have a serious effect on health. I did.
“There are more viral particles that circulate in your body. This means that you can affect you, but it also means spreading illness and increasing the possibility of transmission,” last week.
Brownlow explained his last job as “complete scramble” because his colleague tried to redirect HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis drugs in warehouses around the world.
“There was no attempt to do this step by step. This was a complete abandonment,” said Brown Row.
Fixed (February 4, 2025, 7:14 pm): The previous version of this article accidentally stated the first name of the former senior USAID advisor. He is Kaleb Brownlow, not Carl Brown Row.
