By Germania Rodriguez poleo, Chief US Reporter for DailyMail.com
The Agency for International Development (USAID) was established to supervise humanitarian aid, but it received the AX after it was declared 'irreparable' by the Trump government.
USAID employees were instructed to stay out of the office's DC headquarters on Monday after Elon Musk announced that President Donald Trump had been agreed with him to close the desk.
The billionaire 'First Buddy', which leads a civil evaluation of the federal government through the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) has claimed that the Agency is a 'criminal organization'.
“It became clear that it is not an apple with a worm that is in it,” said Musk in a live session on X spaces start Monday. “What we have is just a ball worms. You actually have to get rid of the whole thing. It is irreparable. '
“We close it.”
USAID, whose website has disappeared on Saturday without explanation, manages billions of dollars in humanitarian, development and security programs in around 120 countries.
It was founded in 1961 under President John F Kennedy to “lead American efforts to alleviate poverty, illness and humanitarian needs, and helps to support American commercial interests through the economic growth of developing countries and the capacity of developing countries to participate in The World Trade ', according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
The Trump government has considered USAID 'irreparable'. An older Pakistani flooded woman eats food in an improvised camp in Punjab on 26 August
The billionaire 'First Buddy', which leads a civil evaluation of the federal government through the Ministry of Government Efficiency has claimed that the agency is a 'criminal organization'
The emergency agency, which managed more than $ 40 million in 2023, employs more than 10,000 people – with around two -thirds that serves abroad.
The countries that received the most funds managed by the USAID in 2023 were Ukraine, Ethiopia, Jordan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigeria, South Sudan and Syria.
The largest financing sectors in USAID have been related to health since the 1990s, with the agency donating billions to combat HIV/AIDS around the world.
Apart from funds for humanitarian aid such as food and medicine, USAID also finances pro-democracy NGOs that focus on education and legal aid in places under authoritarian regimes.
The agency also helped to finance pro-democracy projects such as independent media in countries such as Ukraine, Georgia, Venezuela and Mozambique. According to the Center for International Media Assistance, the US government is the largest public donor of independent media development worldwide – largely via USAID.
USAID has also funded Pro-LGBTQ initiatives, such as a group in Serbia called 'Grupa Izadji', which translates into 'Group Come Out' in English.
Former Obama administration company in the United Nations, Samantha Power, led the agency during the period of Joe Biden.
While the official USAID website is closed, an archive page describes, but the first government of Donald Trump describes its mission as “promoting and demonstrating democratic values ​​and promoting a free, peaceful and prosperous world.”
USAID is one of the federal agencies that are most the target of the Trump administration in an escalating action against the federal government and many of its programs.
Ukraine torn by war has been the largest beneficiary of USAID funds in recent years
Former Obama Admassador in the United Nations, Samantha Power, led the agency during Joe Biden's period
'It is run by a set of radical lunatica. And we take them out, “Trump told reporters about USAID on Sunday evening.
Musk, Trump and some Republican legislators have focused on the agency in increasingly strong terms and accuse the promotion of liberal causes.
Senator Chris Murphy was one of the half dozen Democrats in the Senate Committee for Foreign Relations to argue in statements and on social media that President Trump would not have a legal authority to dissolve the agency.
Aid organizations say that the financing freezes and deep confusion about what the US funded by the US should stop as a result-has them hurt about whether they can continue to perform programs such as those who offer food support 24 hours a day Extremely malnourished babies and children, knowing that closing the doors means that many of those children would die.
Current and former officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and USAID say that employees were invited to submit requests to release certain programs of the Foreign Aid Freeze, who imposed Trump on January 20 and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs described how he on January 24.
Three days later, at least 56 senior career USAID employees were abruptly placed with administrative leave.
Musk, Trump and some Republican legislators have had the agency focused in increasingly strong terms and accuse the promotion of liberal causes
Three officials said that many of those who had placed leave were lawyers who were involved in determining which programs could be eligible for exemptions, help writing proposals and submitting those exemption requests as they thought they were invited.
In an internal memo on Monday about the personnel changes, new acting USAID manager Jason Gray said that the agency “had identified various actions within USAID who seem to be to bypass the executive orders of the president and the mandate of the American people.”
“As a result, we have placed a number of USAID employees with administrative leave with full reward and benefits until further notice while completing our analysis of these actions,” Gray wrote.
A former senior USAID officer said that those who had set leave helps organizations to navigate the 'confusing process' to distance yourself from the aid break for specific life-saving projects, such as constant clean water stocks for displaced persons in war zones.
Others were identified as involved in diversity, equity and inclusion programming, which the administration has forbidden.
