Washington, United States:
President Donald Trump asked USAID on Friday to be closed, climbing his unprecedented campaign to dismantle the humanitarian agency.
“Corruption is seen at levels rarely seen before. Closing!” Trump wrote in his social application of truth without offering any evidence to support his statement.
His latest attack against the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which distributes the humanitarian aid of the United States worldwide, is part of an impulse that has triggered chaos in its global network and accusations of weakening American influence on the world stage.
In the three weeks since his new term began, Trump launched a crusade led by his main donor and the richest person in the world, Elon Musk, to reduce or dismantle the bases of the United States government.
The most concentrated fire has been in USAID.
On Friday, Musk, who, together with Trump, has disseminated blatantly false information about USAID’s finances, returned to publish photos on the social networks of the agency’s signage that retired from his Washington headquarters.
The Trump administration has already frozen foreign aid and ordered thousands of international base personnel to return to the United States, with impacts reported on the field that grow constantly.
On Thursday, a union official confirmed reports that USAID staff of 10,000 employees would be reduced to only 300.
Labor unions are challenging the legality of the attack, including a purchase offer by the Government separated from the Musk team.
A federal judge on Friday ordered a pause to the administration plan to put 2,200 USAID workers on a paid license at 11:59 pm
Democrats in Congress say it would be unconstitutional for Trump, who has also promised to close the Department of Education, to close government agencies without the green light of the legislature.
Soft power
The current United States budget allocates around $ 70 billion for international assistance.
However, although Washington is the largest help donor in the world, money has only promoted between 0.7 and 1.4 percent of the total expenditure of the United States government in the last quarter of a century, according to the center of Pew research.
USAID executes health and emergency programs in around 120 countries, including the poorest regions in the world.
It looks like a vital source of soft power for the United States in its struggle for influence with rivals, including China.
Samantha Power, USAID head under former President Joe Biden, called the “United States superpower” agency in a scathing opinion article of the New York Times on Friday.
“We are witnessing one of the worst and expensive foreign policy errors in the history of the United States,” Power said.
Unless the dismantling is stopped, Power wrote: “Future generations will marvel that it was not the actions of China that eroded the security of the position and global of the United States”, but “an American president and the billionaire who He unleashed to shoot first and point later. “
Republicans and libertarians of hard law have long questioned the need for USAID and criticized what they say is a wasteful expense abroad.
Also on Friday, Trump froze American help to South Africa, citing a law in the country that alleges that allows agricultural land to be incapted from white farmers, despite Johannesburg’s denials.
Racist social publications
The musk born in South Africa and its so -called government efficiency department, or Dux, have dragged through the agencies that most Americans have taken for granted or ignored for decades.
While Democrats have struggled to find a basis for stopping movements, judicial challenges are slowly taking shape.
Trump to revoke the constitutional guarantee to the citizenship of birth law has been blocked by a judge, and on Thursday another judge arrested the Federal Program for Purchasing of Workers, waiting for arguments on Monday.
Musk, the CEO of Spacex and Tesla, found controversy last week with reports that he and his team accessed data and confidential systems of the Treasury Department.
An internal evaluation of the Treasury called Doge team access to federal payment systems “The biggest threat of the largest internal office that the Fiscal Service Office has faced,” US media reported.
In addition to the drama, a member of the Doge team resigned after it arose that he had advocated racism and eugenics in social networks.
On Friday, after support for Trump’s 25 -year looting, Musk said he would restore the employee.
The employee, according to publications discovered by the Wall Street Journal, said last year that he was “racist before it was great.”
Vice President JD Vance weighed on Friday by saying that he did not believe that “the stupid activity of social networks should ruin a child’s life,” while criticizing the journalist for trying to “destroy people.”
“Then I say that it is back.”
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a union feed).
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