Trump’s administration placed several dozens of higher officials of the US Agency for International Development of Administrative leave in response to what the official characterized as a resistance to President Trump’s policy.
E -mail on Monday to USAID employees from the acting administrator Jason Gray said that Trump officials “in the USAid identified several events that seem to be designed to circumvent” a executive order.
Mr. Gray did not provide further details of these events, but he added that as a result, “a number of USAID employees” were placed on vacation “with full reward until the next announcement”.
One person reported on a new order that it was about 60 higher officials in the agency. Another person stated that officials who were on holiday belonged to leaders supervising global medical assistance
With a $ 22.6 billion budget, USD global works also include assistance in disasters, assistance for refugees and programs against poverty.
Agency supporters argue that its efforts make the United States of great goodwill internationally and also supports political stability that serves the country’s security interests – all for about 0.2 percent of the federal budget. However, many conservatives have long questioned foreign aid programs and Mr. Trump and his allies are determined to reduce federal expenses wherever possible.
It seems that Mr. Gray’s e -mail reflects the determination of Trump officials to ensure that federal workers perform even its most dramatic orders – and move them out of the way if they don’t. In this case, the directive in question is almost certainly a executive order that Mr. Trump signed last week to freeze almost all foreign assistance funded USAID and the Foreign Ministry.
“It will start a review of all foreign aid programs to ensure that they are effective and in accordance with US foreign policy in the first America,” said Tammy Bruce, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday.
The order does not apply weapons support To Israel and Egypt or for emergency help, according to a comment issued by Foreign Minister Marco Rubio on Friday.
The memory of the Ministry of the Ministry, which quotes a 90 -day re -evaluation, requires employees to refrain from determining new financing of foreign aid or receiving requests for financing and issuing orders “stop”.
Many suppliers who support infrastructure for USAIDs have also been placed on Furough.
