Musk and Trump against USAID. Agency reform

The duties of the head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) are now fulfilled by United States Secretary Marco Rubio.

Strange things happen at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Its website did not work, some officers lost access to e-mail and was sent on vacation. State secretary Marco Rubio has announced that he has been temporarily entrusted to the agency.

Check costs

USAID is an independent agency with its own budget, which is responsible for managing external American help and development programs. Nearly 10 thousand people around the world work in his state. Former President Joe Biden introduced the head of the USAID agency to the National Security Council.

The agency was created in 1961 under the supervision of President John F. Kennedy and became a unit of humanitarian unit of the US government. Each year it provides billions -billions of dollars to fight poverty, treatment of diseases, eliminate the consequences of hunger and natural disaster. In addition, USAID “contributes to the construction of democracy and social development”, which supports non -government organizations, independent media and social initiatives.

In the upcoming power, Trump ordered to befreeze almost all foreign aids to the foreign, saying that his administration would review costs to ensure that the money was distributed in accordance with his foreign American policy mainly things.

Rubio, who explains why he was led by the agency, said that USAID has refused to answer the administration’s questions about his activities, and “such a level of disobedience is impossible to perform any serious audience.”

Conflict with a mask

Last week, many dozen USAID employees, professional bureaucrats not related to political parties were sent to administrative leave and lost access to their E -mail. There are almost 100 of them in total.

On Saturday, USAID’s security director John Wurchiz and his deputy were sent on vacation after they refused to allow officials from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Ilon, to gain access to Agency systems, including secret information. According to Reuters, they tried not to let DOGE employees into the closed parts of the building.

Security officials have been threatened by criminal persecution, and allowed people to access some protected areas, including the agency’s security and executive secretariat.

According to Reuters’ resources, there is no information about what information employees get in these areas, but in offices where they have obtained, secret files and personal information about Americans working on USAID is stored. According to DOGE Representative Katie Miller, all department employees in the USAID office have the corresponding entry into secret documents – in other words, the secret information does not fall into the wrong hands.

As the New York Times, led by the magician, the new US government’s efficacy department is not a ministry, but rather a target group, which, however, has received unusual powers. The order signed by Trump provides unlimited access to its employees at government institutions. But in theory, in order to get access to secret materials, employees must still receive appropriate permits.

Is the agency close?

Musk in a message on social network X on Monday night said he talked to Trump about the agency’s closure, and he went with him.

“Nothing can be done without full support of the President,” Musk said in an interview with the X Spaces, a section of social networks intended for direct voice communication. – I discussed this in detail with her, and she said that we should close her. I want to make clarity. I asked her several times. I asked: “Are you sure?” – “Yes.” So we’ll close it.

In a conversation with X slots, the mask is generally generous with epithets: he called USAID “incredible -believing political bias” and said it supports “radical left goals All over the world, including anti -american objects. ” According to him, it is impossible to save USAID: “It’s not an apple worm, it’s a ball of worms.”

Later, responding to CNN’s messages, which first reported the next scandal, Musk wrote to X that USAID was “time to die.”

Stephen Miller, who holds a post of the Deputy Head of the Administration for Politics in the White House, also criticized USAID, who accused his employees of the excess of most of the democratic party supporters.

Trump himself on Sunday night told reporters that USAID “was controlled by a group of radical mad people, and we would clean them up … and then we would decide.”