The Donald Trump administration has confirmed plans to integrate US international aid institutions into the State Department.
Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, declared that he was an agency’s agency, and the employees were closed out of the Washington DC Headquarters, but others have been stopped.
Trump has outsourced the billionaire Eulon Musk, who is aiming to reduce the federal government to supervise the project. On Sunday, Mr. Trump said that USAID was “operated by a bunch of extreme madman, we are doing them,” but the mask is “criminal organization” without providing evidence. He said, “until he dies.”
What is USAID and how it is funded?
The USAID was established in 1961 by President John F Kennedy at the peak of the Cold War for the purpose of adjusting foreign aid better.
He currently manages about 60 % of US foreigners and paid $ 437 billion in FY2023. According to a report from the Congress Research Service (CRS) this month, the labor force was 10,000, and about two -thirds worked abroad to support about 130 countries. USAID is funded by Congress based on administrative demands.
CRS stated that USAID stated that it would “support a country with a strategic important country. It leads efforts to reduce poverty, illness, and humanitarian needs, and the economic growth of developing countries. We support US commercial interests by supporting the ability of architecture to participate in world trade.
The top -aid recipients in 2023 were Ukraine, Ethiopia, Jordan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigeria, South Sudan, and Syria.
How much does the United States spend on help and how is it compared to other countries?
The United States provides official government assistance from any other country, but contributing as a ratio of national income is at the bottom of the 2020 wealthy country, according to the number of economic cooperation and development agencies. there is.
In 2023, Norway was the top of the list on the list in the list, and the United States was 0.24 %, with Slovenia, Czech Republic and Spain.
In recent years, according to the Brookings Facility report in September, US spending was about 0.33 % of the gross domestic product. It was a Marshall Planning Program that rebuilt Europe after World War II, reaching 3 % of GDP in the 1950s. During the Cold War, it was within 1 % to less than 0.5 %.
Nevertheless, in 2023, the United States supported a total of $ 720 billion worldwide and about 42 % of the United Nations tracked by the United Nations in 2024. Clean water, HIV/AIDS treatment, energy security, access to corruption prevention work.
Why does Trump oppose the work of an institution?
According to the Presidential order on January 20, Trump states that “foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not the same as the interests of the United States, often contradictory with American values, and most of the 90 days of foreign assistance. We announced the stop.
“They will help you unstable world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly opposite to the harmony between domestic and domestic and domestic harmony.”
In the memo, the administration urges us to participate in the USAID workers to change how to support how Washington is assigned in accordance with Trump’s “American First” policy, and is disciplined to ignore the order. Threated to dispose. The actions have warned the Ukrainian War zone from the Thai refugee camps, saying that humanitarian organizations and UN organizations can face dramatic curbs on food, evacuation centers and health care.
Information on working on working on USAID states that folding it with the State Department will be a big departure. In the past, USAID has been able to provide humanitarian support to countries that have no diplomatic relations, including Iran and North Korea. According to the sources that this is sometimes useful for bridge construction, profits may be lost if the operation is purely linked to political purposes.
Is there any support for foreign aids to superb Participation?
According to Brookings, the Democratic government and members of the Democratic Party were historically cooperative than the Republican Party, but all the President in the postwar period, except for Trump, was a powerful supporter of foreign aid except for Trump. did.
The proposal by the Trump administration to reduce US international issues in one -third was rejected as an attempt to delay the Congress of the Supplementary Foreign Aid Law in 2024. I noticed. Among the Republican -led House of Republican, he refused to revise foreign aid from the budget in FY2025.
