The US Agency for International Development (USA) is exposed to support all over the world over 60 years ago.
The agency’s Usid employees of the Washington headquarters were instructed to stay outside in the early Monday, such as a message distributed to them. The USA’s employees said they had followed 600 employees who had been excluded from the agency’s computer systems overnight.
Those who still received E -Mails in the agency system said that “on the instruction of the agency management” the headquarters on Monday, February 3, for the staff of the agency was closed. “
Musk, on the early Monday live meeting on X, the social media platform he owns, said Trump “agreed” that USAD should be closed.
“You basically have to get rid of it. It is beyond the repair,” said Musk.
Musk’s comments come after the administration sent two top security chiefs in USAID last week. According to reports of several US media, they refused to hand over a classified material to Musk’s government teams in limited areas.
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Musk supervises a Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge) in cooperation with the Trump administration with the stated goal of finding ways to dismiss federal workers, reduced programs and reduce federal regulations. Critics say that mechanisms and agencies already exist in the government to highlight inefficiencies and waste, including state accountability. The general inspectors also help to identify wasted taxpayers dollars, but the Trump government has already released some of them.
Musk replied to a user’s X -post on Sunday by saying: “USAID is a criminal organization. Time to die.”
The democratic congress member Jason Crow from Colorado reacted to the post and characterized them as “wildly steadfastly to say” and pointed out the role of USAID in preventing hunger emergency and promoting democracy.
The chairman of the Senate Minister, Chuck Schumer from New York and other Democrats in Congress, argued that Trump has no legal authority to dissolve the agency that was created by a congress act during the presidency of John F. Kennedy.
In the 2023 financial year, the latest available data, $ 68 billion in the United States from foreign aid for programs that range from disaster relief to health and democracy initiatives in 204 countries and regions. USAID was responsible for around 62 percent of the total, the Foreign Ministry next 28 percent.
“It was led by a number of radical insane. And we bring them out,” said Trump to reporters about USA on Sunday evening. In the same scrum, Trump seemed to say that the White House does not always follow Mousk and Doges’ recommendations.
Uncertainty, confusion about the globe
The Trump government and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio have imposed unprecedented freezing for foreign support. Rubio has announced that there is a review period for a review of the review in which programs are analyzed and that those who offer “life -saving” support, including medicine, medical services, food and accommodation, would be exempted from freezing the aid, although What is qualified is not immediately clear.
“We don’t want people to die and the like,” said Rubio last week in an interview.
The President’s emergency plan for AIDS relief (Pepper), which was created by the government of George W. Bush, is one of the programs that receive a liberation. The program was attributed to the rescue of more than 25 million lives, the vast majority in Africa, in which life-saving HIV care and treatment services are provided, including tests and advice, prevention and treatment of infections, including tuberculosis.
However, the UN -AIDS program said in a statement that many African organizations that received the Pepper Financing were closed last week due to the break and the “lack of clarity and great uncertainty about the future”.
“The world is amazed”, ato MotoalediSouth Africa’s Minister of Health, said last week.
Africa could be hit particularly hard by the movements of the government, which also contain the intention to remove the United States from the World Health Organization by January 2026. Congo has led MPOX outbreaks to upheavals as fights in the east, while the civil war was torn, Sudan is fighting with cholera, malaria and measles.
Doge uses financial data
According to reports of several US media transactions, the two submitted USID security officers -John Voorhees and the deputy Brian McGill -believed legally to refuse access to Musks Doge -Crew, since they did not have enough security to access this information. The current and former US officials had knowledge of the incident and spoke on the condition of anonymity to the Associated Press because they were not entitled to share the information.
Kate Miller, who is a member of a consulting committee for Doge, said in a separate contribution that no classified material was “without proper safety stocks”.
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The development comes with reports that Doge has received access to sensitive data for the Ministry of Finance, including the social security and Medicare customer payment systems, two people familiar with the situation who spoke to the associated press on the condition of anonymity because they could not speak public.
As a result, Doge could have a large scope, among other things, to access important tax payer data.
The democratic congress member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described the activities of the Musk team as a “five alarm fire”.
“People voted President Donald Trump – not Elon Musk,” she said on social media. “An unnecessary billionaire with his own abroad and motives is a serious threat to national security.
Musk has several companies that are necessarily subject to the regulation of the US government, including Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX and Neuralink.
