US Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed that he assumed the position of director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The sprawling government office He was accused of providing humanitarian assistance all over the world.

Speaking from El Salvador on Monday, Rubio described the United States Agency for International Development as “an agency that does not fully respond.”

Its officials also accused “rebellion” for their failure to answer questions about spending and priorities from the administration of President Donald Trump.

“In many cases, the US Agency for International Development is participating in programs that contradict what we are trying to do with our national strategy,” said Rubio.

“20 or 30 years have passed since its repair.”

The Monday’s announcement comes after the billionaire Elon Musk, the close Trump advisor, The name The United States Agency for International Development “criminal organization” said the president He agreed that it should be “stop”.

A senior White House official told Reuters news agency that Trump was considering integrating the agency with the Foreign Ministry “to significantly limit the size of the workforce for efficiency purposes and ensure that it is in line with the president’s agenda.”

The official said that Musk will supervise the efficiency campaign: the billionaire is currently leading the Ministry of Government efficiency, a non -governmental committee from the establishment of Trump.

On Monday, Trump was weighed on distinctive caustic conditions, saying that the United States Agency for International Development was a “good concept” but it was overwhelmed by the “extreme left crazy”.

A human disaster

This advertisement comes in a Wide freezing On the Trump administration, on the Trump administration, which pledged to reform American assistance abroad.

Under Trump’s executive order, billions of dollars were frozen in helping pending a 90 -day review. Thousands of contractors have been demobilized, with service providers all over the world who stop services while waiting for the review.

While a handful of programs have been granted exemptions, humanitarian groups have warned that freezing financing affects a set of services, from removing landmines in war areas to provide preventive health care for infectious diseases.

This, in turn, can put a life in immediate danger, and add.

On Sunday, MSF doctors have warned that the “rapid dismantling” of the American humanitarian aid system “will lead to an unknown humanitarian catastrophe that affects millions of people most vulnerable in the world.”

UN spokesman Stephen Dujarrik on Monday repeated that the freezing would have “an immediate impact on life rescue activities.”

American financing accounted for 42 percent of all the humanitarian financing followed by the United Nations last year. In 2023, the United States issued an estimate 68 billion dollars In external aid, More than 60 percent of them flow through the United States Agency for International Development.

Control questions

The Trump administration’s control of the agency remained unclear on Monday.

The approval of the 1961 foreign aid law approved the government to establish an agency to supervise foreign humanitarian aid. The United States Agency for International Development was organized as a result.

When the US International Development Agency was formed for the first time, the United States was in the midst of the Cold War, and President John Kennedy used the program to counter Russian influence abroad.

Supporters of the agency argue that the American Agency for International Development and other aid programs serve the same purpose in the twenty -first century, providing a budget for expanding the Chinese influence abroad.

Democrats also argued that the president lacks the authority to dissolve the full agency, which they maintain, is supposed to remain independent. Several legislators held a protest against the defense of the United States Agency for International Development in Washington, DC, on Monday.

“We are here today to highlight a crime that reveals in front of our eyes and supported the massive American civil service employees at the United States Agency for International Development.”

Musk was accused of leading an effort to “transfer a critical agency for the American government” and harass its employees.

“This is a state of worst among us who attack the best of us,” said Bayer. “The US International Development Agency has been an invaluable column of US foreign policy and expected US authority abroad. Its cancellation only helps our opponents.”

On Monday, the United States Agency for International Development was directed that the agency’s headquarters in Washington, DC, will be closed for this day.

The American media reported during the weekend that two senior US Agency officials have been placed on an administrative vacation to try to do so Prevented From the Ministry of Governmental efficiency from reaching safe areas of the agency’s headquarters.

In response to the incorporation of the U.S. Agency for International Development with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he issued many Democrats in the Senate A. letter Congress must be examined, discussed and agreed to such a structure.

Senators also warned that any unauthorized arrival at the headquarters of the United States Agency for International Development “raises deep concerns about protecting and protecting matters related to American national security.”