Trump’s Administration described on Friday in detail its plans for the introduction of the US International Development Agency, the main government agency for foreign aid distribution, fully under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and reduce their employees to approximately 15 positions.
E -mail to USAid employees, who informed them about the close layout, entitled “The Final Mission USAID” and sent just after noon, describes in detail the elimination in all names that the administration has long signaled is coming. He arrived at the protests of lawmakers who claimed that the changes were illegal, and from employees and trade unions who sued to stop it.
The agency employed about 10,000 people before Trump’s administration began to review and cancel foreign aid contracts within a few days of the return of President Trump to the White House. Until September 2, e -mail said, “Operations agency will be substantially transferred to the state or otherwise destroyed.”
The cuts are in accordance with the management plan to use foreign aid as a tool to support diplomatic administration priorities. This month was asked for recipients of USAid funds to be asked to justify their value by administration through questionnaires that askedAmong other things, whether their programs helped to limit illegal immigration or secure minerals of rare soils.
In his statement, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio appreciated the upcoming cuts.
“We reorient our foreign aid programs to directly align with what is best for the United States and our citizens,” he said, calling the USAid in his previous form “misleading and fiscal irresponsible”.
He promised that “basic life saving programs” will be among those who are preserved under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the plans shared with Congress, however, the administration indicated that USAID programs that end included the one that financed vaccines for children in poor countriesAs well as some financing the fight against malaria.
E -mail to employees written by Jeremy Lewin, who is part of the Ministry of the Government and has recently been appointed one of the two reigning representatives of the USAD administrators, he said that all non -statute agencies would have on Friday to condemn the notification of separation from July 1 or September 2.
The head of 5 US codes is appointed only by 15 USAID employees: one administrator, one representative of the administrator, six auxiliary administrators, four regional assistants, one main information officer, one General Advisor and one General Inspector. At its peak, the agency counted about 10,000 employees for their payroll, including suppliers, in the United States and abroad.
The completed employees will be able to register for the re -re -re -re -Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he said e -mail through a process that has not yet been set. Foreign staff, as they say, will be offered “safe and fully compensated” return packages to the United States. Employees sent overseas have been said to have 72 hours on request on their preferred departure date.
E -mail was sent to all USAID employees – including those who actively respond to rigid earthquake This hit Myanmar on Friday. E -mail landed around midnight local time on phones of dozens of USAID employees who protected themselves on the street in Bangkok, the capital of neighboring Thailand, because Tremors continued in the city.
Shortly after the e -mail came out, employees began to receive a formal reduction in strength. One shared with the New York Times is: “The agency will cancel your competing area. You will be released from your competitive level and you will not have the right to another place in a competitive area.”
Then they received the e -mail, who encouraged them “to leave and recharge”, given the impact of the daily announcement, according to a copy shared with The Times.
The layout is a much more drastic decrease than the Trump administration originally assumed for the USA in February, it was said that its labor force would be reduced to several hundred employees. On Friday, however, some workers who were considered necessary were given their pedestrian papers.
While the administration announced to the legislators of their intention to monitor cuts, Congress has not yet approved the plan of reorganization, which democratic legislators called unlawful closure of the agency.
Members of the Committees of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, which are supervised by foreign affairs and related budgets, were informed about the reorganization on Friday by Trump’s administration, which stated that it would be completed in July 1.
Meanwhile, a few employees have a problem with the termination notice. Some began to circulate the list of “inconsistencies” on Friday and point to administrative errors and argue that the announcement has not been distributed in accordance with the formal reduction of the strength process.
“Building a 27 -year -old with a meaningful government, foreign policy or developmental experience that is in charge of this process is offended by career staff around the world with ten years of experience,” Julianne Weis, who was the Chief Advisor in USAid Global Health Bureau, and received a letter on Friday. “It is also dangerous for American global position, national security and foreign policy.”
USAID’s comment application received an automatic answer by directing all questions to the Foreign Ministry’s press office. Sent the same request was not immediately answered.
Amy Schoenfeld Walker The report contributed.
