Washington – At least 56 senior officials at the Top American Assistance and Development Agency were placed on leave on Monday, in the midst of the alleged attempt to thwart the orders of President Donald Trump.
A current officer and a former official of the US Agency for International Development confirmed the reason for the move on Monday. Both spoke on the condition of not printing the name for fear of vengeance.
Officials said that several hundred contractors located in Washington and other places were also closed.
It follows Trump’s executive order last week, directing the 90-day stagnation on most US foreign aids distributed through the state department.
As a result of the freeze, thousands of US funded humanitarian, development and security programs worldwide had stopped work or were preparing to do so. Without funds to pay employees, the aid organizations were closing hundreds of employees.
Jason Gray, an internal USAID notice sent late Monday night and the new acting administrator received by the Associated Press, had identified several tasks within the USAID that were designed to ignore the President’s executive orders and the mandate from the American people. Are.”
“As a result, we have placed many USAID employees with full salary and profit on administrative leave, as long as we complete our analysis of these tasks,” Gray has written.
Trump has signed several executive orders since assuming office a week ago, but the notice did not say that the employees were suspected of violating.
The former USAID official said that senior agency officials were placed on leave.
Before those officers were removed from the job on Monday, they were helping us deal with new funding freeze to help funded support organizations and are looking for waves to continue life-saving activities. The former official, from receiving clean water to the conflicted people in Sudan, said that the monitor for bird flu globally.
State Secretary Marco Rubio has exempted military assistance from freeze on foreign aid only especially emergency food programs and foreign aid.
Trump administration and GOP MPs, many of them doubt the need for foreign aid and are eager to pay more to other countries, saying they will review each foreign aid program to determine whether it directly America It is in interest and eliminates those who are considered useless or Liberal Social Engineering.
Politico first placed USAID officers on leave.