The US Agency for Life Agency for International Development is still suspended despite the promise of Rubio

When Foreign Minister Marco Rubio announced last month that life -saving humanitarian action will be exempted from freezing on foreign aid, global health workers breathed a group a sigh of relief.

But a new guidance has developed such exemptions.

Several senior employees of the US Agency for International Health Development at the United States Agency for International Development have received an email on Tuesday telling them “Please stop any other approvals” pending more trends from the Acting Chief of Staff, according to a copy reviewed by the New York Times.

Senior officials of the Humanitarian Assist Bureau received similar instructions during this week meeting, according to a person familiar with what happened.

For weeks, US Agency officials for International Development, Organizations, Contractors, and Advisors with whom they are participating in to continue the type of work that Mr. Rubio promised to preserve – “Basic Medicine to save life, medical services, food, shelter and antibiotics.”

Some exemptions have been issued for programs that fall under the definition of Mr. Rubio for “Life Rescue”, but the phoenix payments system is that the US Agency for International Development depends on the disbursement of financial assistance that has not been accessed for weeks. This means that programs that have received exemptions have been struggled to continue, according to several employees from the United States Agency for International Development and partner organizations that depend on the funding they distributed.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to a request to comment on this article.

On Tuesday, Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman of technology that President Trump combated the agency, told reporters at the Oval Office that the administration “has transformed funding to prevent Ebola and prevent HIV.” But in reality, Ebola financing and almost all HIV prevention financing, according to employees of two US Agency for International Development and many relief groups.

Young engineers who work for Mr. Musk have controlled the agency’s payment system as they took over in recent weeks. As part of the dismantling of Mr. Musk, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also circulated plans to reduce the employees of the United States Agency for International Development from about 10,000 workers to 611 who considered two basic employees.

Without reaching funding, organizations that participate with the United States Agency for International Development have not been able to pay their workers and suppliers for projects that depend on the financing of the US government.

The Norwegian Refugee Council, which is carrying out the US -backed humanitarian action in about 20 countries, said he was unable to benefit from exemptions because the agency’s payments had stopped.

“We currently have millions of dollars from the distinguished payment requests for the US government,” the group said in a statement, noting that civilians in conflict areas such as Ukraine, Afghanistan and Sudan will suffer if its work stops. “Without an immediate solution, at the end of February, we may have to stop the United States -funded humanitarian programs.”

The new political assignments at the Foreign Ministry and the United States Agency for International Development have put other obstacles.

At one of the tasks in Asia, officials received three programs, including one to eradicate malaria, but then they were told that they need exemptions for individual projects as part of these programs, a person said knowledge of the dilemma.

The US agency employees, who were disposed of this week, said that the waiver stop was a sign that the end of life rescue and other projects may be close.

Agency officials have been notified this week that about 350 awards will be canceled. It was not immediately clear that the number of those contracts listed in the list that was distributed last week, which determines about 800 possible cancellation of awards.

Unlike previous notifications, emails sent to employees on Wednesday did not encourage some of the latest cancellation to verify possible exemptions.

The people who made by Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk accused the US Agency for International Development of Delay and try to undermine the efforts made to end the programs by conducting their own contracts for contracts to ensure that the life rescue work is not canceled. However, these reviews will be needed to give the concessions that Mr. Rubio promised.

With the start of the discounts, the unions representing the employees of the American Agency for International Development, as well as companies and institutions working with the Relief Agency, were scrambling to retract the discounts through a series of lawsuits. Some have succeeded in obtaining temporary restrictions against the president’s efforts to dismantle the agency.

Prosecutors argued that measures to reduce their size are unconstitutional and illegal, as Congress has allocated the agency’s funds, and on law, they must agree to their withdrawal.

In one of the lawsuits, which was submitted by the companies that obtained the contracts of the United States Agency for International Development for Global Programs, the Tatawa Company stated that health supplies worth $ 250 million were stuck in crossing or “they were cut off in warehouses all over the world” due to the stoppage orders that accompanied Freezing. The company, Chemonys, has to leave about two -thirds of its employees in the United States in recent weeks.

The Trump administration attorneys have argued in a response to one of the lawsuits that “the president has a wide discretionary authority to determine the conditions and conditions” regarding the provision of aid.

With the rise in legal battles, sharp changes in the first foreign government aid agency continue.

On Tuesday, the Trump administration launched the Inspector General of the American Agency for International Development, Paul K. Martin, just one day after the issuance of a warning report that employee discounts and spending have risked misuse and wasting hundreds of millions of dollars in tax, according to three people familiar with the separation.

The report documented confusion about concessions. She warned that nearly half a billion dollars of food aid was at risk of spoiling, and that the low ability to examine partner organizations made it difficult to ensure that there are no money from the United States towards terrorism.

Also on Tuesday, the agency made another round of cuts to contractors, the most recent of which was at the United States Agency for International Development, which is forced to leave.

And the Department of Public Services, a federal agency that supervises rental contracts and other contracts, in recent days, has ended the US Agency for International Development for Survey, the main headquarters of the Ronald Reagan Building in the center of Washington. The Public Services Department said in a statement on Tuesday that it had reduced the signs of the Relief Agency and that the area of ​​570,000 square feet will be “reused to meet other government needs.”

On Monday, the US Agency for International Development Agency reported that officials from other agencies, including American customs and border protection, who wipe the office space. On Tuesday, the employees learned that they lost the parking concessions because the lease contracts were canceled in the agency, according to a copy of an internal email obtained by the New York Times.

Almost all agency employees were prevented from entering its headquarters for more than a week, although some of them have been accessed to their email accounts this week in order to prepare for their departure.

External service officers working at the agency abroad have been ordered to leave their positions and return to the United States this month, as part of the step that places the vast majority of direct appointments to the administrative leave. The matter was temporarily delayed by a federal judge, who will hear the upcoming arguments in the case on Thursday.

Employees say they expect to expel or expel most of the US Agency for International Development, and the remaining few remain in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk, who has published a dark conspiracy theories about the Relief Agency on his social media platform, called X, to disappear.