US President Donald Trump has suspended dozens of government officials to try to prevent them from freezing all foreign aid administrative orders.
On Monday, January 27th, dozens of professional government officials from international development agencies in the United States were asked for leave. A institution staff told the Wall Street Journal that 57 people were affected.
“We have identified several actions within the USAID Agency (USAID). These actions seem to be designed to avoid the president’s administrative order and the tasks of the American people.” A Email obtained by the Washington Post says.
“Therefore, we have placed many employees of the US International Development Agency in administrative leave and paid in full until they will be notified separately.”
On January 24, Trump announced that the State Department and the United States “did not provide foreign aid” until the plan was advanced for advanced review. Except for Israel and Egypt, in the case of emergency food assistance, except Israel and Egypt.
The 90 -day pause was to ensure that all plans were in line with Trump’s “US first” policy, and the government threatened the “disciplinary sanction” of any employees who ignored the order.
Officials said hundreds of contractors located in Washington and other places were also fired.
After that, Trump’s administrative order last week instructed 90 days of pauses in most US foreign aid paid by the US State Department.
Due to the frozen, thousands of U.S. -global US funding for humanitarianism, development and security plans have stopped work or prepare to do so. Without funds to pay employees, the assistance organization is laying off hundreds of employees.
The US International Development Agency issued a notice from the International Development Agency in the United States on Monday evening and received by the Associated Press. He said that the new agent executive Jason Gray identified ) Several internal actions seem to be to avoid the administrative order of the president and the authorization of the American people. “
Gray wrote: “Therefore, we have placed many employees of the US International Development Agency on administrative holidays and all salary and benefits until we complete the analysis of these actions until further notifications.”
The former US International Development Agency official said that official officials who asked for leave were experienced employees and worked as many governments including Trump.
Before these officials were dismissed from work on Monday, they scrambled to help us funding the aid organization that helped us to cope with the frozen new funds and seeking exemption to continue to save their lives. The former official of the war said the monitoring of the global bird flu.
