President Donald Trump on Friday shut down the USAID, extending his unprecedented campaign to destroy the humanitarian agency.
“At the corruption level which is rarely seen before. Close it!” Trump wrote on his true social app without giving any evidence to support his claim.
His latest attack on United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which distributes American humanitarian aid globally, is part of a drive that has triggered chaos in its global network and weaken American influence on the world stage There are allegations.
Ever since he began his new term in three weeks, Trump started a crusade under the leadership of his top donor and the world’s richest person, Alone Musk, to reduce or destroy the American government’s health.
The most concentrated fire has been on USAID.
On Friday, Musk – who has clearly spread false information about the finance of USAID along with Trump – the photo of the agency’s signage was taken down from its Washington headquarters.
The Trump administration has already frozen foreign aid and ordered thousands of international level employees to return to the United States, with the impact of continuous increase on the ground.
On Thursday, an association official confirmed the reports that USAID headcount of 10,000 employees would be reduced to around 300.
Labor Unions are challenging the validity of the attack, including a separate government-wide proposal of purchases by Musk’s team.
On Friday, a federal judge ordered a stop for the administration’s plan to pay 2,200 USAID workers on payment leave at 11:59 am.
Democrats in the Congress say it would be unconstitutional for Trump – who have vowed to close the education department – to close government agencies without the green light of the legislature.
Soft power
The current budget of the United States allocates around $ 70 billion for international assistance.
Although Washington is the world’s largest assistance donor, according to the Pew Research Center, the total money of the total US government in the last quarter is only between 0.7 and 1.4 percent.
The USAID runs health and emergency programs in about 120 countries including the world’s poorest regions.
It is seen as an important source of soft power to the United States in its struggle for the influence of rivals including China.
Former President Joe Biden, USAID chief Samantha Power on Friday asked the agency “Superpower” in the New York Times Opinion Peace.
“We are looking at one of the worst and most expensive foreign policy defects in American history,” Power said.
Till the disintegration is not stopped, Power wrote, “The generations to come said that it was not China’s action, which erased us standing and global security” but “he was the first to” an American President and Billowaire. Encouraged to shoot and later go a target. “
Hard-Republican and Libeterians have long questioned the need for USAID and criticized them that what they say is wasteful expenses abroad.
Furthermore, on Friday, Trump, citing a law in the country as a law in South Africa, said that he alleges that despite Johannesburg’s refusal, allows the farm land to be confiscated from white farmers.
Racist social post
South Africa -born Kasturi and their so -called government efficiency, or Dogi, are rampaded through agencies, which most Americans have been given or ignored for decades.
While the Democrats struggled to find the notch to stop the tricks, the challenges of the court are gradually taking shape.
An attempt to reverse the constitutional guarantee for congenital citizenship by Trump has been blocked by a judge, and on Thursday another judge stopped the federal activist byout program, pending arguments on Monday.
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Musk participated in the dispute last week, in which he and his team were reaching the data and system of the sensitive Treasury Department.
The US Media reported that an internal assessment from the Treasury led the Dog Team’s reach for federal payment systems “the biggest interiors threatened that the bureau of fiscal service had faced.”
By adding to the play, a member of the Dogi team resigned, as he advocated racism and eugenics on social media.
On Friday, after dismissing the 25 -year -old from Trump, Musk said he would restore the employee.
According to the posts exposed by The Wall Street Journal, the employee said last year that he was “racist before he calmed down.”
Vice President JD Vance on Friday beaten up saying that he did not think that “stupid social media activity should ruin a child’s life, while” while “criticizes the reporter for trying to destroy people. “
“So I say bring him back.”
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