Elon Musks Efficiency of the government’s Ministry (Doge) disappointed the United States Agency for International Development (USAI) and taken a team from Over 10,000 According to an internal e -mail, which is displayed by wired and several current USAID employees, up to almost 300.
The move only leaves 12 people in the agency’s Africa office and eight people in his Asia office with around 290 in total. Some additional foreign workers will receive the two USID employees, but it is unclear how many.
“There are more impoverished people in Asia as somewhere else, and our presence has always contributed to the influence of China’s influence” agency.
On Tuesday USAID workers received an e -mail Note that from Friday, February 7th, all employees with the exception of “named employees who are responsible for mission -critical functions”. The message was published shortly afterwards on the agency’s website. It was also stated that the agency’s workers stationed abroad would be called back to the United States.
USAID and the US State Department did not immediately answer a request for comments.
This was not an unexpected step. The USA was a special destination in Musk’s crosshair with the Centibillionaire call it A “criminal organization” on X and Boast About “feed through a wooden hacker”.
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President Donald Trump was equally hostile to the agency. One of his first actions after taking office last month was to sign an executive order for freezing foreign help, a large part of which is implemented. The change has already hindered working with human action of anti-human action, including projects that help people reported on Wednesday.
Although the administration later made it clear that “life -saving” work can be continued as part of an emergency reference program, the chaotic takeover of the agency has made this impossible in practice. Wired reported The vital HIV/AIDS work was disrupted on Monday, with employees in countries like Haiti not able to access anti -retroviral medication – although a large part of this work was technically granted a waiver.
In the meantime, some employees currently stationed abroad have to be informed about the latest changes to the agency. “The only official communication that I received comes from people from the local institutions of the US state.
