Secretary of State Marco Rubio introduced that he’s the performing administrator of the US Company for Worldwide Improvement with Elon Muska and Donald Trump wish to shut down. USAID‘s headquarters was closed Monday and the workers have been despatched a mail at night time asking them to stay at house at this time as the way forward for the company hangs within the steadiness. The web site of the company and the social media accounts went darkish and 1000’s of private companies contractors and civil servants misplaced entry to e-mail and SAID techniques in a single day.
“On the course of Company management, the USAID headquarters on the Ronald Reagan constructing in Washington, D.C. will likely be closed to Company personnel on Monday, February 3, 2025. Company personnel usually assigned to work at USAID headquarters will work remotely tomorrow, aside from personnel with important on-site and constructing upkeep capabilities individually contacted by senior management,” stated the e-mail.
What’s going to occur to USAID?
The company may very well be completely shut down and positioned beneath the umbrella of the state division as Marco Rubio has been appointed because the performing director.
“Almost about the USAID stuff, I went over it with (the president) intimately and he agreed that we should always shut it down,” Musk stated in a X Areas dialog early Monday. Donald Trump agreed and stated USAID has been run by a bunch of radical lunatics and they are going to be purged first after which a choice will likely be taken about the way forward for the company.
The sudden motion led to utter confusion among the many staff as many private service contractors who journey on diplomatic passports need to be given 15 days of discover earlier than termination. Some USAID contractors are on official work journey and so they haven’t any readability of what’s going to occur to them.
What does USAID do?
USAID gives aid to war-torn nations and different humanitarian support. It was arrange within the early Sixties and has round 10,000 staff with two-thirds working abroad. It has bases in additional than 60 nations and works in lots of different nations the place it doesn’t have bases.
In accordance with authorities knowledge, the US spent $68bn on worldwide support in 2023.
Elon Musk and his cost-cutting DOGE see this operation as pointless. However shutting USAID utterly would doubtless require an act of Congress.
