The Trump administration kept several dozen senior officials on an administrative departure in the US Agency for International Development, in response to a resistance to President Trump’s policy.
The agency’s acting Administrator’s USAID staff on Monday, Jason Gray, said that Trump’s officials “identified several steps within USAID designed to stop an executive order. “
Mr Gray did not provide further details about these operations, but added that as a result, “several USAID employees” were kept on leave “with a full salary until further information.
A man briefed about the new order that it covers about 60 senior officials in the agency. Another person said that the holiday officials included a global health aid leader, one of the largest parts of USAID
6 with a budget of 22.6 billion, USAID’s global work also includes destruction, aid for refugees and poverty programs.
Agency supporters say their efforts gain a great deal of good will to the United States internationally and also promote political stability, which fulfills the interests of the country’s security. All this is about 0.2 % of the federal budget. But many conservatives have long been questioned about foreign aid programs, and Mr Trump and his allies are committed to reducing federal spending wherever possible.
Mr Gray’s email reflects Trump’s commitment to make sure that federal workers perform their dramatic orders – and if they do not do so, they will remove them from the way. In this case, the directive is certainly an executive order in which Mr Trump signed last week to freeze US aid from USAID and the State Department last week to freeze US aid.
“She is launching a review of all foreign aid programs to be effective and synchronized with US foreign policy under the first agenda of the United States,” State Department spokesman Temmy Bruce said in a statement on Friday. “
According to a memo released by Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio on Friday, the order is not applied to Israel and Egypt or for emergency food.
Referring to the 90 -day re -diagnosis period, the Department of State’s memo calls employees to refrain from nominating new foreign aid financing or accepting funding requests, and grants Issue the “Stop Work” order.
Many contractors who served infrastructure support for USAID were also placed on Farlo.
