On Tuesday, US International Agency announced that almost all direct recruitment around the world will be on administrative leave this week.
The movement was announced on the organization’s website after several days of the Trump administration, including President Donald Trump.
According to the announcement, from 11:59 pm on Friday, “All direct employment staff in charge of the mission -critical functions, core leadership, and specially specified programs are given worldwide. It is on the administrative vacation worldwide.
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People who are expected to continue their work will be notified by 3:00 pm on Thursday, and the government says, “If the contract is not judged to be indispensable, we will work to return workers who are not in Japan to the United States. I added it.
It ends with “Thank you for the service”.
According to CRS research services, USAID’s “direct employment” is a civil and foreign services worker. There are other mechanisms that people cooperate with USAID.
Thousands of workers affected by Tuesday night notice.
Research services stated in the January report that USAID labor is a type of contractor known as a total of more than 10,000 direct employment and personal service contractor. About two -thirds of the staff work overseas.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which represents about 1,800 foreign service officers, is mainly more than 80 USAID missions overseas, and blame those that have characterized as “dismantling” USAID.
On the first day of his inauguration, Trump signed a presidential order to freeze foreign aid funds for at least 90 days. The distributor’s headquarters was suddenly closed on Monday, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that he had taken over the institution, appointed the official of the State Department, Pete Marocco.
Many Democrats have expressed their anger, calling them illegal, and said that the USAID was established under the law passed by Congress. Some Republicans have also expressed criticism.
The USAID provides billions of dollars of humanitarian assistance overseas, and the funding of supporters provides more than 100 countries in just a part of the entire federal budget.
President John F. Kennedy signed the USAID in 1961 after the parliament passed the Foreign Aid Law. The law demanded the establishment of an institution to manage foreign assistance.
When Bill Clinton was the president, the parliament was passed, and Clinton signed a foreign reform and reorganization in 1998, establishing a USAID as an independent organization other than the Ministry of State.
According to a report on the Congress Research Service this month, Trump has no authority to abolish USAID, and that parliamentary action is necessary for such movements.
In FY2013, Congress Research Services said that USAID had managed a total of more than $ 40 billion budgets in about 130 countries. Some of the top winners are Ukraine, fighting devastating war after being invaded by Russia, Somalia, Ethiopia, Jordan and Congo.
The Trump administration has promised the sweeping of foreign aid and the fundamental change to the government. Eron Musk, whose White House employees worked as a “special government employee”, said that in X, he and Trump were “closing USAID” early Monday. He added, “We spent the Wood Chipper at the Wood Chipper on the weekend.”
This week’s interviewed experts warned that the use of USAID would allow us to weaken us in South America and Africa, and allow Russia and China to specialize in more influence in other countries.
