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The future of the main US Agency for External Aid is in doubt after its website has become dark, and senior security officials have been placed on vacation and Trump ally Elon Musk described it as a “criminal organization” that must “die”.
Relief workers, diplomats and legislators are trying to understand a series of fateful developments at the United States Agency for International Development. Its website, and some officials lost access to emails and they were placed on vacation, and there are suggestions that will be absorbed into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“President Trump spent two weeks in harassing and setting the United States Agency for International Development, and now his team is trying to completely wipe the agency,” said Democratic Senator Chris Konz on Sunday.
The United States Agency for International Development is an independent agency that includes about 10,000 employees all over the world responsible for managing aid and development programs in the United States. Former President Joe Biden, the US Agency for International Development, submitted to the National Security Council. Trump has not called a new US Agency for International Development.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a request to comment on the state of the US Agency for International Development website or its plans for the agency. The US Agency for International Development is working under the authority of Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, but he is an independent agency that has its own budget.
The US International Development Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump and his team have made it clear that they want external aid to comply with the “First American” platform. The United States' Foreign Development Agency may mean fewer funds available for development and assistance programs in the United States. This would reduce American spending, but it may also harm human efforts all over the world and allow China to fill the void.
“The US Agency for International Development” is likely to be submitted closely under the Minister of Rubio. “
“I will be at all, if this is the path we go to, remove the American Agency for International Development as a separate section, and make it fall. Other parts of the United States … because of its failure.”
Two senior security officials were placed on Saturday's vacation after they refused to allow officials from the MUSK Ministry of Government to reach the agencies systems, including the information classified, according to a person familiar with the matter. CNN I mentioned for the first time the clash. Dozens of other job officials have also been placed on a vacation since last week, with some of the accused of trying to thwart Trump's trends of the agency.
Trump Dog Musk made it responsible for cutting what the two men say he was spending a wasteful American government.
Musk launched a series of US Development Agency's criticism on Sunday, calling it a “criminal organization” and “evil”.
“It is time to die,” he wrote.
Trump has Already Billions of dollars in external aid. The immediate stopping of all external aid projects has prompted crises in humanitarian and development organizations participating in everything from life -saving medical activities to drug control efforts to clean water programs.
Hundreds or leave were launched and more discounts are expected in the coming weeks. Last week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs established an exemption for some life -saving humanitarian assistance.
The current and former officials said that the potential absorption of the US International Development Agency in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could be a test of the Trump administration because it is looking to possess the executive.
“This administration seems to test what they can get rid of in terms of disposing of one side to reshape the functions and fingerprint program of the United States government in ways that Congress did not declare, and the Congress was not allocated, in fact, Congress, in fact, in fact, has, in fact, Indeed, in fact, in fact, Tess Bridgman, who worked in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Security Council during the Obama administration, said that they prevented them from doing it in some laws.
