Marco Rubio appoints himself as the head of the United States Agency for International Development, while the workers are closed from his post Trump administration
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio announced himself on behalf of the Acting Agency for the United States Agency for International Aid (the United States Agency for International Development) on Monday, when employees were closed from its headquarters in Washington, DC, and the White House confirmed plans to integrate it into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The agency has become a point of contact with the Trump administration’s efforts to control federal spending in recent days through the so -called “government efficiency” (DOGE).
Two senior security officials at the United States Agency for International Development were suspended on Sunday due to the ban of Doug officials from a banned area, a day after the agency’s website transferred, and the musk posted to X that the American International Development Agency was “unlike repair” and must be closed.
Speaking to reporters on Monday in El Salvador, where he was on a government visit, Rubio told the correspondents that he took control of the US Agency for International Development “to align” Trump’s priorities.
“Our goal was to enter and align our foreign assistance with the national interest,” he said.
“If you move from the task after the mission and the embassy after the embassy around the world, you will often find, in many cases, that the American Agency for International Development is participating in programs that contradict what we are trying to do in our national strategy with this country or the region. It is not possible To continue. “
The agency runs approximately $ 43 billion of food, humanitarian aid and other aid, including clean water programs and drug provision, to about 130 countries. The employees were informed in an email late Sunday on Sunday not to report on Monday morning.
Separately, a White House source said on Monday that Trump and administration officials are discussing the merger of the United States Agency for International Development in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and planned to send a notice to Congress shortly after his plans, Reuters said.
An unpredictable official official said that the goal is to “reduce the size of the workforce for efficiency purposes significantly and to ensure that its spending is in line with the president’s agenda.”
Musk, the billionaire who has repeatedly described as a “criminal organization”, said that he discussed with Trump in detail his plan to close it – and that the president had agreed.
“I have already reviewed with him several times [and] He said, “Are you sure?” Musk, who was informed of that Washington Post.
The US International Development Agency is the world’s largest donor. In the fiscal year 2023, the United States spent $ 72 billion from assistance around the world on everything from women’s health in conflict areas to access to clean water, HIV/AIDS treatments, energy security and anti -corruption. It provided 42 % of all the humanitarian aid followed by the United Nations in 2024.
Trump has commanded a global freezing of most US foreign aid as part of his “First America” policy that already sends shock waves around the world. Field hospitals are in Thai refugee camps, land mine removal in war areas, and drugs to treat millions of suffering from diseases such as HIV among the programs at risk of judiciary.
Doug workers, an informal government ministry without a certified authorization from the Congress, were also able to reach the very US Treasury Ministry database and federal payment system.
according to Wireless magazineThe Dog team leads a group of six “inexperienced youth” engineers between the ages of 19 and 24, one of whom is still in college. The decision of the new Treasury Secretary, Scott Payette, to allow “full access” to the personal data of millions of Americans, as well as the details of the public contractors who compete directly with the Musk’s work to increase interest concerns.
Devex, media platform for the global development community, I got a copy From the email sent to the United States Agency for International Development, who are working at its headquarters in the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, DC, ordered them to stay at home on Monday. He was sent hours after the director of security, John Faris, and a deputy was placed on an “administrative leave” on Sunday after it was physically prevented from the Doug team from the restricted areas.
After that, Dog took control of the building’s access system, allowing them to create employees and read emails. The sources said that the administration also sought employee files and rotational data.
Democrats and other critics have condemned the US Agency for International Development by Musk and Trump Administration. This was part of Trump’s wider and firm pushing to control and reshape large parts of the Federal system during his second presidency.
Sinator Hawaii Democrat Brian Shatz He told Wall Street Journal On Monday, all candidates for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Trump will be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to work again to work normally and the administration stopped its “authoritarian behavior”.
Such a move from the majority leader of the Republican Senate John Thun will require a valuable time on the floor to pay Trump’s candidates through the confirmation process.
Chris Van Holin, a Senate member of the Democratic State of Maryland, joined the party’s colleagues at a press conference at the United States Agency for International Development to reach the US Nutrition Agency on Monday to reproduce Musk’s participation in the dismantling of the agency.
This is a clear and present danger to the future of our country. Do not make mistakes, this effort by Elon Musk and the so -called Doge to close the agency is an absolute gift for our opponents, to Russia, to China, to Iran and others. “
“This has nothing to do with making the United States government more efficient, and everything related to the help and incitement of our opponents all over the world.”