Washington – The Trump administration on Thursday presented a plan to dramatically bite the staff worldwide for American aid projects, which is part of the disintegration of the American agency for international development, which leads to thousands of Less than 300 workers were released.
Two current USAID employees and a former senior USAID officer spoke out the plan of Associated Press of Administration, which was presented to the remaining senior officials of the agency on Thursday. He spoke on the condition of anonymity not to print USAID employees from talking to anyone outside his agency amid the Trump administration’s order.
The scheme will leave less than 300 employees who are currently 8,000 direct and contractors. They will run some life -saving programs, with an unknown number of locally rented international staff locally abroad, which the administration says that it intends to go on for time.
It was not immediately clear whether the reduction of 300 would be permanent or temporary, possibly allowing more workers to return after the Trump administration behest, it is a review of what assistance and development programs they want to resume.
State Secretary Marco Rubio said during a visit to the Republic of Dominican that the US government will continue to provide foreign aid.
“But it is going to be foreign aid that makes sense and coalition with our national interest,” he told reporters.
The Trump administration and billionaire colleague Elon Musk, who is running the budget-coding department of government efficiency, has so far targeted the USAID in an unprecedented challenge of the federal government and its many programs.
Since the inauguration of President Donald Trump on January 20, a comprehensive funding freeze has discontinued most of the agency programs worldwide, and almost all of its workers have been placed on administrative holidays or furlogs. Musk and Trump have talked about abolishing USAID as an independent agency and furthering the surviving programs under the Department of State.
Democratic MPs and others call the move illegal without the approval of the Congress.