Washington-Tysiące gathered on the Capitol hills on Wednesday to protest to protest to the Buldozing of Trump’s administration in the USA and critical medical care in war torn and affected by poverty regions around the world.
The future of American humanitarian efforts is unclear after the American International Development Agency was informed at the end of Tuesday to prepare for administrative leave and abandoning global positions within a few weeks.
A crowd of demonstrators near office buildings in the US Senate contained “Republicans, where are your spikes?” And “USAID makes America safe, strong and prosperous.”
They opened democratic legislators and former USAID officials, who begged the crowd for “not giving up”, like a Congress composed of a republican, allowed the illegal takeover by Elon Musk in USAID “-as the democratic representative Sara Jacobs from Kalifornia put it.
“And let’s be clear, although USAID may be the first, it will not be the last. But the joke is on them because who knows better how to work in an authoritarian country than everyone else? “She said to a cheering crowd, including humanitarian employees.
Doge takeover
Persons identifying in the so -called “Government Department performance” Musk entered the computer systems at the headquarters of the USAID main headquarters in Washington.
Democratic legislators sworn “to fight her legally in every respect,” said the crowd of Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey.
“We will fight their violation of their civil service regulations. We will fight their violation of their civil rights. We will fight their violation of the chapter of power. We will fight their violations of our United States Constitution, “said Booker, issuing Republicans to join the sponsorship of the regulations for the salvation of USAID.
“It’s not about demonizing a political party. It’s about telling the truth about Donald Trump’s actions and Elon Musk’s actions, “said Booker.
Rep. Madeleine Dean told the crowd “not to get tired”.
“These are not normal times,” said Pennsylvania Democrat. “What is happening is corrupt. He is cruel, chaotic, he is unlawful, it is unconstitutional and it comes. Don’t go home. Stay with us. Bring us more people and demand the same our republican colleagues. Where are they? When will they stand in a state of this unlawful administration? “
In response to questions about Musk staff, who received introduction to USAID, President Donald Trump told journalists on Sunday that the agency “is conducted by radical madmen and we pull them out and we will make a decision.”
Trump placed Musk responsible for the “American temporary service”, which according to his own Trump executive orderIt is to modernize federal technology and software. Musk used it to gain access to USAID, as well as payment systems of the Treasury Department – for which there is now a department In the face of the process.
All employees on vacation
All “Direct Rire” workers will stay on vacation from 23:59 Eastern on Friday, according to messages published at the end of Tuesday Usaid.gov. The message is the first element that appeared on the website because it went gloomy on Saturday.
Employees who are “designated staff responsible for critical functions, basic leadership and specially designated programs” will be notified until Thursday at 15.00 Eastern, if they are expected to continue working, according to the note. Foreign employees have 30 days to leave their positions, unless they receive an exception to special circumstances.
“Thank you for your service,” the message ended.
The State Department did not answer the Newsroom’s questions regarding the number of employees will remain employed and where the humanitarian missions will continue.
Two -thirds of around 10,000 USAID employees work abroad. The 10 best recipients sit in 2023, the latest full data available, are Ukraine, Ethiopia, Jordan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigeria, South Sudan and Syria, in accordance with the Congress Research Service.
“Do you know who cheers today?” Bama Athrey, former deputy administrator of USAID, asked the crowd. “Isis supports. Al -aida supports when we remember thousands of people around the world “who give juvenile people” options “, she said.
Ukraine support
Congress assigned About $ 40 billion at USAID in 2023. This year, the agency has allocated a huge part for managing and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, because the Eastern European nation is in the face of further invasion of Russia.
The agency also has a reputation of its work containing global health crisis situations – perhaps the best known of fund management in order to fight the global AIDS epidemic under President George W. Bush in the event of the president’s failure in favor of AIDS Relief or Pepfar.
Atul Gawande, a surgeon who ran the Global health program USAID for three years before the second administration of Trump, led the crowd in singing “Let them work”.
“Just two weeks ago there was a malaria team with global experts and they are not there. Up to two weeks ago there was a tuberculosis syndrome (tuberculosis) and they are not there – said Gawande.
“They called it” shock and admiration. ” It’s a shock and destroys. You can’t dismantle the plane and slow down the crew in the middle of the flight, but it is the oligarch with uncontrolled force that makes life-saving foreign help programs, “said Gawande.
41-year-old Brian York from Fairfax, Virginia stood in a crowd with a double-sided hand-drawn sign containing the message “Make America again” and “USAID weapons”.
“I support my government. I was a scout. My father was a sea aviator. I really like this country and I want it to be better than that, “said York.
List of “waste, fraud and abuse”
The White House maintains that USAID “for decades has been completely unpredictable, led by bureaucrats with programs who believed that they did not answer anyone.”
IN Post on X On Wednesday, the White House communication staff mentioned 28 what they characterized as the problematic USAID projects.
Without determining the details, including the length of financing, the post was mentioned in particular: “$ 6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa”, “$ 1.3 million for Arab and Jewish photographers”, “$ 20 million For a new show of Sesame Street in the show of Sesame Street in the Sesame Street in Show In program. Iraq “,” $ 1.5 million for “art to include disabled people” and “$ 500,000 to solve sectarian violence in Israel.”
“President Trump stops waste, fraud and abuse,” summed up post on X, which is owned by Musk, billionaire Trump Campaign Campaign.
Account X USAID disappeared at the weekend.
Democratic legislators he protested Outside the headquarters of USAID on Monday, when the Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he was now an agency administrator.
Senator Brian Scatz from Hawaii, one of the protesting legislators, said that he would block the upcoming nominations of the Trump-Mruch State Department, which would snail-paced down, but will not stop, nominations in the chamber managed by GOP.
Last updated 16:18, February 5, 2025
