According to the Trump administration intends to integrate the main foreign relief agency of the United States government with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where workers were asked to stay outside its headquarters in Washington.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio told reporters that he is now head of the United States for International Development (USAID), the agency that distributes billions of dollars as aid worldwide.
Democratic lawmakers described it as a “illegal and unconstitutional” step that would harm the poor abroad, harm national security and reduce the American influence on the global theater.
President Donald Trump and one of his senior advisers, billionaire Elon Musk, strongly criticized the agency.
Speaking to the White House journalists on Monday, Trump claimed that the agency, which is run by “The Leave Extreme Legal”, was escaping from “massive fraud”, but it did not provide names or details.
The United States Agency for International Development was established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, and has about 10,000 employees and a budget of about 40 billion dollars (32.25 billion pounds), out of a total of $ 68 billion in spending foreign government's foreign aid.
Minister Rubio described it as “a fully non -intense agency”, and said that many of the organization's functions “will continue.”
“They will be part of US foreign policy, but it must be compatible with US foreign policy,” he told reporters in El Salvador.
It is not clear how the administration plans to implement such a change.
A former US Agency for International Development has returned to Rubio and Trump, saying that the organization represented “the best and brightness offered by the US government.” Speaking to the BBC, Gillian Caldwell described the “absolute chaos and fear” at the United States Agency for International Development, as the Trump team “literally cut the agency.”
Three officials said that the American Agency for International Development will remain a humanitarian entity, despite its merger into the Foreign Ministry, three officials of the American BBC partner, CBS News.
The developments follow comments from Musk, which heads an unofficial agency to reduce costs, that the administration was planning to close the United States Agency for International Development.
During the weekend, two senior security officials were placed on vacation and agency sites that became dark. The workers have since been informed of staying at home. Hundreds of employees were closed from their email, according to an internal message obtained by the BBC.
Global aid was raised within days in late last month, after President Trump froze all the foreign assistance provided by the United States upon his return to the White House.
The turmoil in countries, including Afghanistan, felt that American aid funds life saving services for women and children. One of the midwife told the BBC that all the medical centers funded by the United States Agency for International Development have been closed and that dozens of workers had asked to stay at home.
In Syria, a “work stop” message was also received by hundreds of employees who occupy the Houl displacement camp in the northeast. There, it is the task of human workers is the stability of the site – which holds 40,000 people, most of them women and children – displaced from the areas they had previously controlled by the Islamic State.
Outside the offices of the American Agency for International Development, Democratic Parties said that the moves were against the law and that the closure of the agency would harm national security.
“It is not only a gift for our opponents … it's a clear illegal,” said Senator Chris Van Holin of Maryland, which indicates that the likes of China and Russia can be encouraged by the weak American influence on the world stage.
The situation in Syria was martyred by Congress member Johnny Ulzuski, who also represents Maryland. “This is a real life, and this is dangerous and this is dangerous,” he said.
Others claimed that musk was driven by its commercial interests.
“Elon Musk makes billions of dollars on the basis of his business with China, and China is chanting this measure today,” said Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
Musk was clarified about an initiative called the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE), a team that is not an official government agency but has given Trump a wide period to reduce government spending.
His legal status is unclear, as well as its authority to order the closure of government programs without consulting Congress in the issue of the United States Agency for International Development, for example. Doug was already the subject of the court's challenges.
During the weekend, Musk posted dozens of messages including allegations that the agency was widespread and corruption.
On X, his social network, called Usaid “Evil”, “Criminal Organization” and “Psych Psych -Led -Eft Radical” -short for “psychological process”, which is a common online term to invite a conspiracy or cover up .
In a direct current in X early on Monday, he told the followers: “You have to get rid of the entire matter. It does not exceed the reform … We are closing it.”
On Monday, the American media – referring to sources at the White House unveiled her name – said that Musk had obtained an unpaid job as a “private government employee” part -time, a situation that is likely to make him undergo several rules on financial disclosure and conflict Interests.
At the White House, Trump defended Musa's handling with the situation, saying that the technology pole “had” only “access to people to go to going that he does not think he is not good, if we agreed to it, and only if we agreed to it.”
“Elon cannot do and will not do anything without our approval,” he said.
The American Agency for International Development distributes billions as aid to NGOs, relief and non -profit groups around the world.
As its website dropped, many of the main information centers, including tracking international famine and contracts of aid records, were not available.
Senior officials have been placed on leave or resigned in the past few days after clashes with Musk's Doge, including requests imposed on informal management staff who can access a very safe area used to review classified information. Weekend.
“No ranked materials have been accessed without appropriate security permits,” Dogi spokeswoman Katie Miller wrote on X.
Both security manager John Faris and Deputy Director of Security Brian McGil were placed both on an administrative vacation as a result, according to CBS reports.
The Washington Post reported that the Chief of Staff of the US Agency for International Development was also resigned.
