Trump administration A plan has been announced to significantly reduce US aid programs staff so that the US Agency for International Development as part of efforts to shut down (Usad) The project will leave less than 300 employees out of the thousands working for the agency.
Senior officials were informed about the project on Thursday, citing two current USAID employees and a former senior official, the news agency Associated Press.
The AP report states that the project will reduce the number of staff from the current 8,000 direct employees and contractors. In addition, an unprecedented number of members of 5,000 local staff abroad will continue to run a relief program, which the administration says will continue.
It is unclear whether this reduction will be temporary or permanent. The Trump administration has said it is reviewing which aid and development programs may resume in the future.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, addressing the Dominican, said that the United States will still provide Foreign aid.
“But it is about to be a foreign aid that is understood and is associated with our national interest,” he told reporters.
Trump administration, with Elon Musk, who heads the department The performance of the government (Dodge), has focused on cutting USAID as part of a wider effort to reduce government programs.
Since President Donald Trump took office on January 20, the funds have stopped most USAID programs worldwide. Almost all employees of the agency have been placed on administrative leave or on Furlo. Trump and Musk have discussed the termination of USAID as an independent agency and changing the rest of their programs under the State Department.
Democratic lawmakers and others say these measures need Congress approval and they cannot be unilateral.
