Secretary of State Marco Rubio has added a new role to his portfolio.
Recently, Donald Trump’s super -targeted allies, Elon Musk, have started a full attack on organizations that have been in charge of distributing tens of millions of dollars to foreign countries each year. did. The goal is that developing countries will support support for poverty measures and to provide support to countries recently attacked by disasters.
Musk and Trump are not fans.
“USAID was a radical left -wing political PSY OP,” Musk posted on Monday to his social media platform X. He called it a “criminal organization.”
Last week, Trump said that the organization had a “rapid left madman”. On the first day of his inauguration, Trump has frozen all new foreign aid for 90 days.
After a few days of turmoil, Rubio had allowed some humanitarian programs, reported that the Kaiser Family Foundation reported.
Rubio has not historically shared USAID masks. In 2017, he posted to X that the funds distributed to other countries would be “less than 1 % of the budget, and important for national security.”
In a variety of times of Florida as a member of the Representative, Rubio called for money to a country that was attacked by USAID. For example, in the wake of Hurrician Lrian in 2019, Rubio praised the institution by sending supplies to Bahamas.
On Monday, Rubio reported to the reporter of El Salvador that the agency is valuable and will continue a program that is regarded as value for national interests. But he said that the agency needed a closer director. The New York Times reports Pete Marocco, a foreign assistant agent in charge of daily work.
Last week, two USAID representatives took a vacation by telling the representatives of mask government efficiency that they could not access a safe internal institution system.
Rubio said on Monday that the internal resistance would “make it impossible to make some kind of mature and serious reviews.”
The movement of USAID’s autonomy and under the State Department will definitely expand the tension between the Trump administration’s class and the federal employee of the file and the politician. In the first month of his inauguration, Trump and Musk explained that they had enlarged the federal bureaucracy in the left and promised dramatic cuts.
Remote Federation employees are ordered to return to office work. Those who do not obey have provided “postponed resignation” transactions. I will continue to work on off -site until September 30.
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