When Foreign Minister Marco Rubio announced last month that life humanitarian work would be exempt from freezing foreign aid, global health workers have breathed a collective sigh of relief.
However, the new directive suspended such exceptions.
Several higher employees in the USAid Bureau of Global Health have received Tuesday e -mail, saying that “please last more approval”, which according to the copy of the reviewed New York Times will extend other instructions from the reigning chief of the staff.
Managing officials of the Office for Humanitarian Affairs have received similar instructions during the meeting this week, according to a person who is familiar with what happened.
For weeks, USAID officials and organizers, suppliers and consultants who partners with them tried to continue working with them, Mr. Rubio promised to retain – “Basic drugs to rescue life, medical services, food, shelter and addictive substances . “
Some surrender have been published on programs that fall into the definition of “rescue” Mr. Rubio, but a system of payments called Phoenix, which USAID relies on the payment of financial aid for several weeks. This means that even the programs that have gained surrender tried to continue.
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Tuesday, Elon Musk, billionaire entrepreneur technology authorized by President Trump To fight against the agency, he told reporters in an oval office that the administration “turned on the financing of Ebola prevention and to prevent HIV”. In fact, however, Ebola funding and virtually all HIV prevention remains frozen according to two USAIDs and several groups of assistance.
Young engineers working for Mr. Musk seized control of the agency’s payment system when they took over in recent weeks. And as part of the disassembly supervised by Mr. Muskem, the Foreign Ministry also recently sent plans to reduce USAID employees from about 10,000 workers to 611, who were considered basic staff.
Without access to financing, there were no organizations that cooperate with the USAID, able to pay their employees and suppliers for projects that were dependent on the financing of the US government.
The Norwegian refugee Council, which performs humanitarian work supported by the US in about 20 countries, said it was unable to take advantage of exceptions because the agency’s payments stopped.
“We currently have millions of dollars in outstanding applications for the US government,” the group said in its statement, noting that civilians in conflict zones such as Ukraine, Afghanistan and Sudan if her work stopped. “Without an immediate solution, we can be forced to stop humanitarian programs funded in the US at the end of February.”
New political denominators at the Ministry of Foreign Association have introduced other obstacles.
And on one mission in Asia, officials received exceptions for three programs, including one to eradicate malaria, but it was said that they need surrender for individual projects within these programs, the person with the knowledge of the dead end said.
USAID employees said this week that the surrender pause is a sign that the end of their life and other projects may be close.
The agency officials were informed this week that about 350 awards would be canceled. It was not immediately clear how many of these contracts were The list that orbited last week identified about 800 potential awards annulment.
Unlike the previous announcements, E -Maily sent to employees on Wednesday warn them to some of the last cancellations did not support them to check the potential exceptions.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk’s denominators accused USAID officials of the delay and attempt to undermine the effort to end programs by performing their own reviews to ensure that life work is not canceled. However, these reviews would be necessary to grant the exceptions promised by Mr. Rubius.
As the reduction is breaking, the USAID employees, as well as companies and organizations that work with the Agency for Help, have been able to obtain temporary restrictions on the President’s efforts to demonstrate the agency.
The petitioners argued that the reduction measures are unconstitutional and illegal, because Congress has appropriated the funds for the agency and must be approved by law.
In one court proceedings filed with USAID global programs, she said that $ 250 million health needs were stuck in transit or “stuck in warehouses around the world” to stop the work that accompanied the work. The company, Chemonics, had to grow about two thirds of its employees in the US in recent weeks.
The lawyers of Trump’s administration argued in response to one of the court disputes that “the president has a wide powers to set the conditions” in providing assistance.
As legal battles wear, drastic changes in the premiere foreign aid of the US government continue.
On Tuesday, Trump’s administration burned the General Inspector for USAid, Paul K. Martin, just one day after he issued a report warning that the reduction and freezing of employees risk abuse and loss of hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers, according to three people known with release.
The report was documented by confusion around surrender. It warned that nearly half a billion dollars of food aid were endangered by spoil and that the reduced ability of organizations for veterinarians made it difficult for any US money to go to terrorism.
Also on Tuesday, the agency made another round cut to suppliers, the latest in the USAid, which was forced to leave.
And General Services Administration, a federal agency that oversees building leases and other contracts has recently terminated the USAID lease in the Ronald Reagan building in the Washington Center. The General Services Administration stated on Tuesday in the statement that it had reduced the hints of the Agency and that the space of 570,000 square feet would be “converted into other government needs”.
USAID employees said on Monday that officials from other agencies, including US customs and borders, are exploring office space. Employees on Tuesday learned that they had lost the privileges of parking because the agency’s lease was canceled, according to a copy of the internal e -mail acquired by The New York Times.
Almost all agency employees were forbidden to enter their headquarters for more than a week, although some of them were given access to their work accounts this week to prepare for their departures.
Foreign service officers working for the overseas agency were ordered to leave their contributions this month and return to the United States, as part of a step that kept most of the direct rents on an administrative holiday. The order was temporarily delayed by a federal judge who will continue to hear arguments on Thursday.
Employees say they expect most of the USAID’s workforce to be released or pushed out and the remaining remaining will be absorbed into the Foreign Ministry. Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk, who published the theory of dark plot about the agency to assist on his social media platform, called for his demise.
