Washington (AP) – We Relief staff Around the world on Wednesday for a riot for answers and suddenly pulling homes or pulling their children from school Trump administration order Yanking almost all of them Out of job and out of the field.
In Washington, Democratic lawmakers and other supporters of the US Agency for International Development planned rallies to protest against the abolition of an independent government agency established six decades ago. USAID is one of the agencies who have been most affected by the new administration and Elon Musk’s budget cutting team target Federal Program They say whether the Conservatives are useless with the agenda or not.
Among many of the over 100 countries, the US Embassy, ​​where USAID has worked, called for an emergency town hall to find the answers to thousands of agency staff and contractors. Embassy officials said they had not been given any guidance about staff, especially local rental, about the status of employment.
Despite the administration’s assurances that the US government would bring the agency workers home within 30 days, many feared that they were trapped in the field and left their way to make their way. In Washington, his colleagues explained the re -mobilization of employees’ networks, which in the past helped to remove local staff from the dangerous areas.
Order has come on Tuesday to abandon USAID posts around the world as many of the rescue workers have been closed with email and emergency communication with their government. Most of the agency’s expenses have been ordered to freeze and most workers at the Washington headquarters have been removed from the job, which makes it not clear that the administration has to move thousands of staff and their families suddenly. How to manage and pay.
Thousands of crews will be destroyed in the billions of dollars Projects in about 120 countriesUkraine and anywhere else, including clean water, job training and development work for education, including school girls under the Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
Online notification to USAID workers and contractors said they would stay away from jobs, unless midnight on Friday, they would be effective, unless they were considered necessary. The notice states that the overseas agency has received 30 days to return home to seek direct services, while the contractors will be fired.
Thousands of people were already released after the Republican, Trump frozen a clean freezing on foreign aid and programs were closed around the world. Despite screaming by Democratic lawmakers, the relief agency has been a special target as the so -called administration and the Musk. Government Performance Department Look to shrink the government.
He has ordered a prevention of spending that has paralyzed US financing aid and development works, guts the agency’s senior leadership and manpower with firing and firing, and Monday to the Washington Headquarters. Closed for staff every day.
“On the weekend, Yos Aid just just fed in a wooden chip,” Kasturi was proud of X.
America is still the world’s largest humanitarian donor. It spends less than 1 % of its budget on foreign aid, which is a small part of its budget compared to some countries.
Helping a famous HIV/AIDS program, a famous HIV/AIDS program, has been stopped by helping to eliminate polio and smallpox diseases and save more than 20 million lives in Africa. So make programs to monitor and deploy rapid reaction teams for infectious diseases such as Ebola outbreaks in Uganda.
Millions of dollars of dollars provided by US companies are already sitting on the ports due to the closure of medicines.
Democrats and others say USAID has been included in the legislature as an independent agency, and cannot be closed without Congress approval. USAID supporters say both political parties say its job is necessary to counter the influence of Russia, China and other opponents and rivals in Russia, China and abroad, and to strengthen unions and partnerships.
The decision to withdraw the direct rental staff and their families before their planned departure will probably cost the government tens of millions of dollars and expenses to migrate. The holiday staff includes both foreign and civil service officers who have legal protection against the discretionary dismissal and are kept on leave for no reason.
The US Foreign Service Association, the Union, represents US diplomats, sent a notice to its members condemning the decision, saying it was preparing for legal action to counter or stop it.
However, locally working USAID staff does not have much facilities and were excluded from the federal government’s voluntary purchase.
With the reduction of rumors, USAID staff and family faced wrenching decisions, including whether children had to pull out of the middle of the school. Some people have given pet cats and dogs, fearing that the administration will not take time to complete the paperwork to bring the animals with them.
The announcement came when Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio was visiting five countries in Central America and met the Embassy and USAID staff in two of the region’s largest US Aid missions this week: L Salvador And goat mala.
At a news conference on Tuesday, Rubio said he had “supported foreign aid for a long time. I continue to support foreign aid. But foreign aid is not a charity. He said that everyone in the United States The dollar should advance its national interests.
Online notice states that those who will be exempted from holiday include “Mission-Corresponding functions, basic leadership and specially designated program” and should be notified by Thursday afternoon. Will
“Thank you for your service,” the notice concluded.
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Lee reported from Guatemala city.
