The US Agency for International Development Agency was dark on Saturday afternoon as aid legislators and workers, already in shock from the recent, freezes from foreign aid and the suspension of senior officials , preparing for the possibility that the agency can be closed.
A mini page at USAID appeared on the State Department website on Saturday afternoon, suggesting that agency activities – which are currently seriously limited – had been raised under the Umbrella of the State Department.
Democratic legislators and aid workers have been seized since Friday by information that President Trump was planning to deliver a dismantling decree from the aid agency and transfer his work to the State Department.
Trump did not hide his disdain for the scope of American foreign aid, arguing that the sending of dollars of taxpayers abroad is contrary to his first program in America.
On Saturday, legislators had learned that at least some of the USAID panels at the agency’s headquarters in downtown Washington had fallen, and rumors surrounded that mission directors in the world were recalled in the United States . These reports could not be verified independently.
Two USAID employees, who work in the headquarters of Washington and spoke on condition of anonymity due to an order prohibiting employees from discussing any change to the agency, said they were working under a Atmosphere of fear and chaos, and that half the work of the agency La Force had been eliminated last week.
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