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The Government Efficiency Department (Doge), which is directed by the Technology billionaire ELON ALMIZCLEHe points to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and, according to Senior sources of Congress, he moved to confiscate the control of the independent agency during the weekend.
The main sources of the Congress told Fox News that more than 50 members of the Usaid high level personnel were placed on administrative license and subject to a gag order, which means that they were not allowed to communicate with anyone outside the agency without approval.
The USAID headquarters were also eliminated in the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, DC, and the Doge team took over the computer systems, the sources said. USAID is responsible for distributing civil assistance and external development to countries around the world.
The agency managed approximately $ 40 billion in assignments last year, According to the Congress Research Service.
Rubio stops the foreign aid of the State Department and USAID to make sure he puts ‘America first’ ”
The American International Development Flag Agency flies in front of the agency’s headquarters in Washington.
President Donald Trump He complemented Musk’s decision -making on Sunday during a quick interaction with journalists in the asphalt at the Andrews joint base. When asked if he felt that Musk was “fulfilling his promises,” the president replied with many praise.
“I think Elon is doing a good job,” Trump said. “He is a large cost cutter. Sometimes we will not agree with that and we will not go wherever he wants to go, but I think he is doing a great job. He is an intelligent, very intelligent guy, and is very interested in cutting the budget of Our federal government “.
On Sunday, Associated Press reported that the Trump administration placed two main security leaders in the USAID with license after refusing to deliver classified material in restricted areas to dodge.
After initially the access to the Usaid classified information was rejected, Dege obtained that access on Saturday, allowing them to see things like intelligence reports, a current official and a former United States official to the AP.
Doge team members lacked a security authorization high enough to access the information, so the two security officials of USAID, John Voorhees and deputy Brian McGill, believed they were legally forced to deny access.
On Sunday, Musk pointed to USAID on his social media platform X, writing: “USAID is a criminal organization. It’s time to die.”
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He also wrote several other publications about the agency, saying things such as: “USAID was a nest of viper of radicals of the left that hate the United States” and “Usaid is evil.”
The latter was in response to a position that suggests that Usaid helped finance the investigation of Coronavirus in Wuhan, China, who referred to an interaction published in Forbes between Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., And now the former administrator of USAID Samantha Power in April 2023.
Trump echoed Musk’s publications saying that Usaid has been directed by “a lot of radical lunatics” and his administration is “taking them out.”
ABC News reported that those familiar with USAID were questioning whether the movements in Usaid were being made in an effort to move the agency under the State Department, where there could be a better responsibility.
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Elon Musk Jumps joins former President Donald Trump during a campaign demonstration in Butler, PA. (Jim Watson/AFP through Getty Images/File)
Senator Cory Booker, Dn.J., turned to social networks on Sunday to sound in the “dismantling” of USAID.
“Trump and Musk are dismantling recklessly and illegally USAID, an essential national security agency that saves lives, advances the interests of the United States and promotes peace,” Booker wrote. “Their malicious actions are putting people’s health, especially children, with serious risk, and will surely lead to future public health and migration crises in the United States, much less suffer worldwide.”
Last week, at least 56 USAID officials were placed on administrative license with complete salaries and benefits, and several hundred contractors based in Washington and in other places were fired.
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The actions occurred after the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, acting in Trump’s executive order, stopped all Foreign assistance from the United States Funded by OA through the State Department and USAID.
The 90 -day break has arrested thousands of humanitarian, development and security programs funded by the United States worldwide and forced organizations to help fire hundreds of employees because they cannot make payroll.
Chris Pandolfo de Fox News Digital and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
