Washington-de Trump administration places the American agency for international development-dependent staff members around the world on leave, except those who are considered essential, so that the six-determining mission of the auxiliary perasive is used abroad.
A Notification posted online On Tuesday, employees will give 30 days to return home. The move had been rumor for several days and was the most extreme of various proposals that were considered to consolidate the agency in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Other options were closures of smaller USAID missions and partial closures of larger ones.
Thousands of USAID employees had already been fired and Programs closed worldwide After President Donald Trump had imposed a major freezing on foreign help. In the space of a few weeks, Trump political and that of Elon Musk Budget-slisen Department of Government Efficiency Did the auxiliary horse dismantled despite the protest of Democratic legislators.
They have ordered a spending stop that has paralyzed auxiliary and development work all over the world by the US, eradicated the senior leadership and workforce with leave and dismissals and the Washington head office is closed for staff members on Monday. The legislators said that the computer servers of the desk were taken away.
“The weekend spent USAID in the Houten Chipper,” Pocht Musk on X.
The Musk teams had taken the USAID website offline during the weekend and it came online again on Tuesday evening, with the notification of recall or termination for global employees his only position.
The decision to take up the staff and their families rather than their planned departure, the government will probably cost tens of millions of dollars in travel and relocation costs.
The staff placed on leave are both foreign and civil servants who have legal protection against random dismissal and are placed on leave for no reason.
The American Foreign Service Association, the trade union that represents American diplomats, sent a notification to its members who denounce the decision and say that it prepared legal steps to prevent or stop.
Locally working staff at USAID, however, does not use much and are excluded from the voluntary buyout offer of the federal government.
USAID employees abroad fear the move and have packed household assets last week. Families were confronted with key decisions when the move appeared, including whether they had to pull children from school from the middle of the year. Some gave cats and dogs away, for fear that the Trump government would not give them time to complete the paperwork to take the animals.
The announcement came as State Secretary Marco Rubio was on a five-Natie tour through Central America and met the Embassy and USAID employees at two of the largest USAID missions of the region: El Salvador and Guatemala on Monday and Tuesday.
Journalists who accompanied Rubio were not allowed to witness the so -called “Meet and Greet” sessions in those two countries, but were allowed on Sundays for a similar event in Panama in which Rubio employees, in particular the locals, praised for them dedication and service.
Democratic legislators and others say that the USAID is laid down in legislation as an independent agency and cannot be concluded without the approval of the congress.
The online notification says that those who will be exempt from leave, including employees who are responsible for “mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs” and that they would be informed on Thursday afternoon.
“Thank you for your service,” concluded the notification.
– Ellen Knickmeyer and Matthew Lee