Only 294 employees with the US Agency for International Development have been considered significant among more than 10,000 global employees.
State Secretary Marco Rubio has reportedly said that crucial health and humanitarian assistance will continue, following the threats of Donald Trump and Elon Musk to dissolve the entire agency, but the administration intends to decimate its size, including limiting staff to only 12 people in Africa .
What seems to be an internal diagram of the employee’s collapse shared by a former USAID Global Health Director also notes that only 21 people will serve the Middle East, with only eight people assigned to all Asia and eight people who is assigned to Latin America.
The dramatic cuts were also confirmed by New York Times and Reuters.
A memo on the agency’s website earlier this week noted that almost the entire workforce would be put on “administrative leave” at the end of the week with only a small number of “appointed staff responsible for mission -critical functions, core company and specially designated programs “, That would be exempt.
USAIL workers abroad, which account for about two-thirds of the agency’s staff, is expected to return to the United States within 30 days, according to the note. The agency would “arrange and pay for return trips,” the memo states.
“Thank you for your service,” it sounds.
Trump administration officials have lubricated the agency’s expenses as unnecessary, wasting, politically motivated and in conflict with the president’s foreign policy and ideological agenda.
Quick escalating threats to the 63-year-old agency-AS funds and supporting healthcare, disaster relief and anti-poor efforts around the world-have encrypted employees, leaving many in shock and disbelief as Musk and his allies brand USAID a “criminal organization” and A “political psyche in radical-left.
USAID administers auxiliary projects for approx. 100 countries with a budget of approx. $ 40 billion, including tens of thousands of millions of dollars returning to the US economy through the purchase of US food shipments.
The independent has requested a comment from the state department that has taken control of the agency in the wake of Trump’s Presidency.
Rubio told Fox News this week that the State Department’s takeover was “not about getting rid of foreign assistance.”
“But now we have ranked insubordination,” he said. USAID staff have been “completely cooperative, so we had no choice other than taking dramatic steps to bring this thing under control, according to Rubio.
This is an evolving story