It was an exhibition for ages. Last week, the Trump administration issued an order in which all workers from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) were on leave.
Direct rental workers have been given 30 days time to return to the United States. At the same time, the employees of the horrific department’s performance (DOGE) went to the DC headquarters of the agency and even prevented its top organizers from entering the building. Employees were also disconnected access to their emails. The agency’s branding was removed in the field of the building.
Apparently in a moment, and on the objectionable legal authority, an agency whose purpose was to help people around the world avoid famine and was eliminated. USAID represented less than one percent of the US federal budget.
The US foreign policy has a lot to say about this remarkable change. In terms of its impact on Pakistan, the Trump administration has also reduced aid in important USAID projects. It includes a program that helped protect historical buildings, archaeological sites and museum collections. Five energy programs have also been affected. Both are unclear how much aid is being provided to Pakistan by the agency as a whole, and will the Congress clearly distribute (if any).
In Pakistan, government employees are generally accustomed to change whenever the government changes. The reason for this is that most of them, especially in high positions, are political appointments. In the United States, when there is plenty of political appointments, the government is largely run by career diplomats who continue to operate things in the same way, regardless of which party in power. Is
With every executive order for the government’s reorganization, from going with USAID to the Department of Education, from the department to a massive firing, to shut down the President Trump bureaucratic landscape. Looks firm.
It seems that Trump’s executive order aims to change the bureaucracy’s landscape.
The extensive review options that have been given to the Secretary of State Marco Rubio to check every program and see it, and to see if it meets Trump’s agenda or not. Thousands of two million federal employees will be affected. Those who received a notorious letter titled ‘Fork in the Road’ had to accept the resignation agreement last Thursday, where they will be paid by September if they leave the job immediately. Regardless of what is next, about 40,000 employees picked up the offer.
There are significant structural changes beyond the uncertainty that surrounded the US political scene, which are changing Washington’s foreign policy in the near future. The way the USAID was abolished is similar to that when he took over the social media platform and named it as X, the chairman of the Dage and the richest man in the world, Elon Musk. Eliminated Twitter.
At this point, its impact on America’s future cannot be reduced. Through the efforts of someone, including the efforts of the Filling Democrat senators and members of the House, nothing has been achieved so far to stop it in their tracks and it is unlikely to have no effect. In a stand in which the Dodge official was demanding access to the Treasury, the Dodge won and now has access to the US federal government’s most secret data and payment information.
USAID was established in 1961 under the late President John F. Kennedy. While it was undoubtedly many programs that helped provide HIV drugs and food to the worldwide -infected and famine -hit areas, the agency created a well -known reputation after the United States. Following its attacks, national construction efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq failed.
Inspector Generals who were responsible for surveillance (and also dismissed all) revealed that the agency was unable to calculate millions of dollars or that they reached autonomous leaders and dictators in corrupt, failed states rather than people. Has been Intended to help. For Trump, USAID was “run by a group of radical madmen”.
But at the same time, the relief agency was the main source of the soft power of the United States, and its abrasion represents a difficult turning point where the Quaid Pro type will be the future face of America’s future. Beyond good or bad, it is true that withdrawal of gentle power does not produce immediate results, but also expose its deficit when the United States really needs relief from a country that reduces aid. He was later abandoned.
This also allows other global players like China to occupy the gap that arises from the emission of a powerful country, though Beijing, despite its foreign actions, focus more on the agenda of domestic economic development itself. Is focused.
It seems that every day brings a new interruption order in Washington. If Trump’s last administration comes in uncertainty and bullying, it seems far more intended to work on his promise – government agencies have been reduced rapidly, which has been strong for decades, sometimes praised. And at other times it is highlighted. For now, everything, including the future of the world, depends on the wishes of a man.
The author is a lawyer who teaches constitutional law and political philosophy.
Dawn, appeared on February 8, 2025
