The Trump administration reduced the American Agency for International Development to the bones on Thursday, reducing the world's besieged employees from 10,000 people to less than 300 people.
This huge reduction, which was reported by the New York Times and Reuters, comes one day after the US Agency for International Development announced on its website that it will remember all foreign employees and put all employees except for those who are responsible for “important jobs, basic and private driving designated programs” On an administrative leave by Friday night.
The American Agency for International Development, which is targeted by the Ministry of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk (DOGE), will target a major example of the taxpayer -funded waste, only 294 combined employees in Washington and its conferences around the world, including 12 employees in its office in Africa and eight in Asia office, according to Reuters.
The small group of remaining employees includes individuals specializing in health and humanitarian assistance, according to the New York Times.
The US Agency officials for International Development were informed on Thursday that nearly 800 awards and contracts were administered through the agency, according to the perpetrator.
The Trump administration hopes to integrate the covered agency with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
For this purpose, on Monday, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio was appointed as Acting Director of the US Agency for International Development.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to the publication request for comment.
Two -thirds of the American Agency for International Development, who numbered 10,000 employees outside the United States, according to Congress Research Service (CRS).
The agency, established by former President John F. Kennedy, through the executive order in 1961, is the Humanitarian and Foreign Actance Authority of the federal government.
The American Agency for International Development obtained a budget of $ 43.4 billion in the fiscal year 2023 and most of its money spent on foreign governance assistance ($ 16.8 billion), followed by humanitarian aid ($ 10.5 billion), health care initiatives ($ 7 billion), and administrative efforts (3.5 One billion dollars), agriculture and agriculture, education and infrastructure projects ($ 3.1 billion), according to CRS.
President Trump ordered a 90 -day stopping to help American foreign development on the first day of his second term.
On Sunday night, the President accused the American Agency for International Development “is run by a group of radical crazy people, and we take them out.”
Meanwhile, Musk later said during the X Spaces event that Trump “agreed” with him that Dog “must close it.”
The billionaire Tesla and Spacex, CEO, argued that the agency was “unlikely”.
Reducing employees at the United States Agency for International Development came on the same day that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed that it had placed 168 employees on vacation to comply with Trump's executive order on diversity, fairness, integration and other presidential directives.
“Justice employees have taken decisions regarding the Office of Environmental Justice Staff that had legal duties or basic task jobs. In this way, 168 employees were placed on administrative leave because their job is not related to the agency's legal duties or grant work.”
The official added: “The Environmental Protection Agency is in the process of evaluating the new structure and organization to ensure that it has fulfilled our mission of protecting human health and the environment for all Americans.”
