The website of the US International Development Organization or USAID institutions moves to the Trump administration to set up an independent institution and set up the current $ 42.8 billion budget of the global humanitarian business under the Ministry of State. It seemed to be offline.
When an attempt to access the website was on Saturday, a message was displayed, “I couldn't find a server IP address.”
The two -way sources of discussion told Reuters on Friday that the Trump administration is running under the Ministry of State's management of the Trump administration for its independence as a government agency.
According to Reuters, the obvious failure on the website was deleted after the signs of the state of the State Department after being embossed on the official seal of government agencies on Friday.
This movement pledged that the Trump administration would overhauled the distribution of foreign aid, and last week, a review was implemented to guarantee that assistance around the world would match Trump's “American first” foreign policy. He said that foreign aid was frozen.
Currently and former USAID officials seemed to be designed to remain the opposition this week, and that bringing institutions under the State Affairs will be “changes in earthquakes.”
“The US government will move to a place where humanitarian voices do not become a high -level policy discussion,” said the officials.
In a line of opinion Wall Street JournalThe U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, assumed that it was under the Ministry of State or whether it was under the Ministry of State, assuming the USAID, but outlined a new diplomatic focus in the West Hemisphere.
Rubio said he would travel as the highest diplomat in Japan to the Dominican Republic of El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and Dominica.
“These countries are often ignored by the past administration, which prioritized the global policy that accelerated China's economic development at the cost of our neighbors,” Rubio wrote.
Reuters reports that the White House is looking for legal authority that Trump can be used to issue an administrative order to end the USAID independence, and can sign such instructions on Friday night or Saturday. did.
“I will see the USAID tonight,” said Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate and a member of the Senate Diplomatic Committee, said in the X post on Friday evening.
Chuck Schumer, a minority leader of the Senate, mentioned the “rumors” that Trump was planning to dissolve the USAID as an independent institution, “Illegal, our national interest. It is contrary to. “
However, it is unknown whether the president has a legal authority to bypassing Congress and ordering the USAID merger to the State Department.
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If you are under the Ministry of State, USAID can be a more clear armor of foreign policy goals than the world's largest donor in humanitarian activities that save lives.
The USAID has been able to support countries where the United States has no diplomatic relations in the past. The government agency told Reuters that non -organizing with the US diplomatic duty has helped to build a bridge that may not fall into purely political purposes.
Probably, Trump has not nominated people to operate USAID, signaling the new administration's plan to fold an institution under the State Department.
The cost of freezing US foreign aids is already felt. Thai refugee camps, outdoor hospitals in Thai refugee camps, mine clearance of war zones, and drugs that suffer from illnesses such as HIV are one of the programs that are facing refunds.
In fiscal 2023, the United States received $ 72 billion in the world, from women's health in conflict zones to clean water, HIV/AIDS treatment, energy security, and corruption work. It provided 42 % of all humanitarian support tracked by the United Nations in 2024.
Following the Presidential order of Trump last week, the Ministry of State has issued a suspension work order around the world, except for emergency food assistance in the movement that warns that experts are at risk of killing people. Is virtually frozen.
Earlier this week, Rubio issued additional exemptions for “Humanitary Support to Save Life”, and Washington made a 90 -day review.
