USAID staff placed on leave and ordered home from overseas posts

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The Trump administration will establish most US agencies for international development employees starting Friday and instructing foreign workers to return to the United States within 7 days.

President Donald Trump and his billionaire Alone Musk Refund the US government over the past two weeks to make this move to USAID employees on an internal email and its website, the latest step to Washington’s main foreign aid agency, described as the latest this step and which they describe as unnecessary federal expenses Cut it out.

This declaration has given birth to a jerk among thousands of USAID workers around the world and many of them working abroad with their families.

The Secretary of Secretary Marco Rubio has since been taken over by Trump Order a frost With all the foreign assistance, the “life -saving” adds some exceptions for humanitarian assistance. Kasturi says he is in the process of breaking the agency.

Rubio notified Congress on Monday that he was Be the acting administrator And the parts of the USAID were exploring the absorber in the State Department.

After Friday, “all USAID directive will be kept on mission-criticism of mission-criticism, original leadership and specially nominated programs,” the company said in a notification on its website.

It further added that the expected staff of the work will be notified of their dignity on Thursday afternoon. According to the notice the USAID will consider the “case-by-case exceptions and return Travel Extensions” for family or personal situation and mobility and protection anxiety.

According to the Congressional Research Service, about two-thirds of the USAID employees serve abroad on more than 60 missions.

Since the USAID was established as an independent body by the Congress, the President does not have the power to cancel it. However, Trump has displayed a wide latitude to blank it in the past few days.

“If you really want to kill USAID, the Congress still needs to work, until it is over,” said a former USAID official. “The nail of the coffin is being attacked.”