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(AFP)— US President Donald Trump’s administration announced plans Friday to effectively close the US international development agency USAID, formalising widely-criticised plans to dramatically cut foreign aid spending.
“Today, the Department of State and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have notified Congress on their intent to undertake a reorganization that would involve realigning certain USAID functions to the Department by July 1, 2025,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.
The State Department, he said, also plans on “discontinuing the remaining USAID functions that do not align with Administration priorities.”
“Unfortunately, USAID strayed from its original mission long ago,” he said. “As a result, the gains were too few and the costs were too high.”
After taking office in January, Republican President Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing US foreign aid for 90 days.
Dramatic cuts to various USAID programs followed, with some exemptions granted for vital humanitarian aid.
The aid freeze has caused shock and dismay at the independent agency created by an act of the US Congress in 1961.
Prior to its closure, the agency managed an annual budget of close to $43 billion, accounting for more than 40 percent of the world’s humanitarian aid. Most of its staff were placed on administrative leave shortly after Trump took office.
USAID staff were informed in a memo on Friday of plans to eliminate all jobs not required by law, according to multiple US media organizations.
In the memo, Jeremy Lewin, the acting head of the independent agency, reportedly said the State Department also planned to retire most of USAID’s independent operations in the coming months.
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Good move.
That USAID agency funded a program here and they spent money unconscionably.
Great job trump, it has been enriching all sort of global corporation as resource provider and inferior too, since it’s more designated for the African project of institutionalize poverty so that these global corporation gets our resources untop of that, and the available cash will be looted by corrupt politicians and lodge in offshore bank, can you remember Barbuda hurricane funds relief that was donated internationally with one donor coming straight out to threaten Gaston brown over the monies he think should have benefitted barbudans? It may sound funny what trump is doing but he is erasing this dependency that was institutionalized.
Can’t stand to read the comments of imbeciles FROM THIS COUNTRY, who are openly supporting the USA in its plans to offer aid to struggling countries in time of need. Such persons and their respective political, social. Ethnic, racial, religious affiliations should identify themselves so that at the appropriate time the true Patriots of Antigua could deal with them appropriately, the way that traitors and enemies of the State and its people should be treated.