USAID staff will be put on leave starting on Friday happymamay

The agency says that thousands of employees of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will be placed on a vacation from Friday night.

The statement of the American Agency for International Development said that the matter will affect all “direct rental employees” except for those who follow “important important jobs, basic leadership and specially specific programs.”

It is not clear exactly which of the affected functions. The statement, published on the agency’s website, said that the employees will be notified by Thursday noon.

The Trump administration said that the US Agency for International Development is wasting money and needs compatibility with the priorities of the president’s policy. The agency’s employees, backed by democratic lawmakers, protested the discounts, saying that they would put a life in danger and hinder national security.

President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze external assistance has raised the global aid system, with already tangible implications in multiple countries.

The agency, which provides humanitarian aid to more than 100 countries, employs 10,000 people all over the world. Two -thirds of these people work abroad, according to Congress Research Service.

The budget of the US Agency for International Development, which was founded in 1961, is about $ 40 billion (32.25 billion pounds) annually, up to about 0.6 % of federal spending, according to official figures.

In a statement on its website on the Internet on Tuesday, the US Agency for International Development said it will work with the US State Department to arrange and pay the price of travel to employees who were deployed outside the United States within 30 days.

She said that employees who are part of the exceptions would be informed by 15:00 USA (20:00 GMT) on Thursday.

The statement ended with the message: “Thank you for your service.”

Given that some of the United States Agency employees work in active conflict areas, it was not immediately clear how they will be withdrawn.

These measures are part of a series of discounts that Trump’s age since returned to the position last month through coordination with the informal government efficiency management of Elon Musk.

Among the countries affected by the freezing of aid is Haiti. The United Nations said on Tuesday that the United States was notified that it was freezing $ 13.3 million of aid allocated to the country.

But on Wednesday, the US State Department issued a waiver of exempting $ 40.7 million from foreign national police assistance in Haiti and the task of internationally supported international security support.

Earlier this week, the White House made a statement listed by a number of projects that were called “waste and abuse”, including a $ 1.5 million grant for the LGBTQ group in Serbia and $ 2.5 million for electric cars in Vietnam.

However, critics called the moves to close the agency as an illegal authority led by Musk, which is an unacceptable billionaire.

Earlier this week, Marco Rubio, Trump’s best diplomat, became head of the United States Agency for International Development as part of her reported integration into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The closing of the US International Development Agency will completely require the action of Congress.

On Tuesday, many US Agency for International Development Agency received an email to notify them that they had been placed on paid administrative leave.

The BBC News has told the employees that they should remain “available” by phone and email during working hours, but they were not allowed to enter the American Agency for International Development.

Musk, CEO of Tesla and SPACE X, suggested that the US Agency for International Development be closed completely, because it “cannot be repaired.”

Many have warned that closing the agency’s doors will have devastating effects on the weak population all over the world.

The activities of the American Agency for International Development range from providing artificial parties to the injured soldiers in Ukraine, to removing landmines and reaching the spread of Ebola in Africa.

Nigeria HIV patients have told the BBC that they and others are concerned that free antiviral drugs, funded by the United States Agency for International Development, will be cut.

“I am really afraid of what the future hides, given everything that is going on in America,” she said. “I got the latest group of HIV drugs in November, and I am supposed to return in April … but I don’t know what will happen by that time.

She said: “These free drugs are really important to me, and most of us (HIV patients) will be in trouble if affected.”

Democrats in Washington, DC, were particularly critical of the agency’s changes, describing them as “illegal” and “unconstitutional”.

“[USAID is] Democratic Senator in New Jersey Andi Kim, who was previously working on the United States Agency for International Development, wrote on social media, a tool for foreign policy of partisan origins that are decisive in this dangerous global environment.

“It means that we complain about our ability to compete and preserve America is safe.”