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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revealed that he has undertaken as a Director of the Agency for International Development of the United States (USAID), The Scattering bureau accused of providing humanitarian aid around the world.
Speaking from El Salvador on Monday, Rubio described the USAID as a “completely unaware agency”.
He also accused his employees of “disobedience” of not answering questions about the costs and priorities of President Donald Trump's administration.
“In many cases, USAID is involved in programs that are contrary to what we are trying to do with our national strategy,” Rubio said.
“20 or 30 years people have tried to reform it.”
Monday's message comes after billionaire Elon Musk, close counselor of Trump, called USAID 'Crime Organization' and said the President I agreed that it should be “off”.
A senior White House employee also told the News Agency Reuters that Trump is considering uniting the agency with the State Department to “significantly reduce the amount of labor for the purposes of efficiency and to ensure that their costs are in accordance with the agenda of The president. “
The official employee said Musk would monitor this desire for efficiency: the billionaire currently leads the Ministry of Government Efficiency, a Trump non -governmental.
Trump also retired on Monday into a characteristic caustic terms, saying the USAID was a “good concept” but was ahead of “radical left -wing lunatic”.
“Humanitarian disaster”
The message comes against the background of a wider freezing Concerning foreign assistance with the Trump administration, which has sworn in major overhaul of US assistance abroad.
According to Trump's executive order, billions of dollars for help are frozen in anticipation of a 90-day review. Thousands of performers have been fired, with providers around the world stopping the services while expecting the review.
Although a handful of programs have been provided, humanitarian groups warn that funding freezes an effect on a number of services, from clearing mines in war zones to providing preventive health care for infectious diseases.
This, in turn, could cause lives in immediate danger, they add.
On Sunday, non -profit doctors without borders (MSF) warned that the “rapid dismantling” of the US humanitarian aid system “will lead to undoubtedly a humanitarian disaster affecting millions of the most vulnerable people in the world.”
The spokesman for the United Nations organization Stefan Duzarik reiterated on Monday that freezing would have “immediate impact on life -saving activities”.
US funding represents 42 percent of all humanitarian funding, followed by the UN last year. In 2023, the United States issued approximately $ 68 billion in foreign help, More than 60 percent of which flowed through the USAID.
Control questions
The Trump administration control over the agency remained unclear on Monday.
The adoption of the Law on Assistance of Foreign Assistance of 1961 requires the government to create an agency to monitor foreign humanitarian aid. As a result, USAID was organized.
When USAID was first formed, the United States was in the midst of the Cold War, and President John Kennedy used the program to counteract Russian influence abroad.
Agency's supporters say USAID and other assistance programs serve the same goal in the 21st century, offering an opposition to the expansion of Chinese influence abroad.
Democrats also claim that the President has no authority to completely dissolve the agency they maintain is intended to remain autonomous. Several MPs conducted a makeshift protest in defense of USAID in Washington, Colombia, on Monday.
“Today, we are here to shine a light on a crime that unfolds before our eyes and support our huge US civil servants,” said Don Bayer of Virginia in an outdoor speech.
He accused Musk of leading his efforts to “cease the critical agency of the US government” and harassed his employees.
“This is a case of the biggest among us, attacking the best of us,” Beyer said. “USAID is a priceless pillar of US foreign policy and designs US power abroad. Its elimination only helps with our opponents. “
On Monday, USAID employees were instructed that the headquarters of the Washington Agency, Colombia District, would be closed for the day.
US media reported over the weekend that two USAID senior officials were put on administrative leave for experience of experience Block individuals By the Ministry of Government of Efficiency from Access to Safe Regions of the Agency's headquarters.
In response to the potential USAID merger with the State Department, several Democrats in the Senate issued a Letter Saying such restructuring must be “visualized, discussed and approved by Congress”.
Senators also warned that any unauthorized access to the USAID plant “raises deep concerns about the protection and protection of issues related to US national security.”
