USAID workers deployed abroad and their families have 30 days to return to the United States
Text: RFI / AFP
All personnel of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will be placed on administrative license as of Friday, including officials deployed abroad, according to a document published by the entity on its website on Tuesday night.
The decision was taken after the magnate Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and controversial advisor to President Donald Trump who aims to reduce government spending, revealed on Monday to use it, which manages billions of dollars in cooperation in cooperation worldwide, “will close.”
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, later said that he will not disappear, but that he will pass under his control since the United States does not “charity.”
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Since then, dozens of high officials of the USAID had already been placed in labor decline and access to the agency’s main headquarters in Washington was blocked.
«On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (Eastern time) [04H59 GMT del sábado]all employees directly hired by USAID will be placed on administrative license worldwide », with the exception of the personnel considered essential, according to the note published on the Internet.
The workers deployed abroad and their families have 30 days to return to the United States, adds the memorandum, without giving more details.
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The decision has surprised and shocked the Independent Agency, created by an American Congress Law in 1961 and has a budget of more than 40,000 million dollars for humanitarian aid and development throughout the planet.
USAID uses about 10,000 people, two thirds of which are destined abroad, according to the Congress Research Service.
Shortly after returning to the White House on January 20, Trump ordered to freeze US foreign aid, except for some exceptions, while reviewing for 90 days if it fits its foreign policy objectives.
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