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As part of the widespread effort to ignore the National Assembly and unilaterally cut the government spending, Donald Trump's government has closed activities at the US International Development Agency, or USAID, Agency, Agency, The Independence Federation provides humanitarian assistance and economic development funding worldwide. On the first day of office, President Trump issued the executive order to suspend all USAID's funds, and the agency later issued a order to stop work for nearly all the sponsors. , from the soup stove in Sudan to the global humanitarian group Mercy Corps.
Since then, Elon Musk's new government's effective department has closed the agency's website, locked the staff from their email account and played the agency's Washington office.
Prohibiting USAID as a criminal organization, Musk Musk posted on X on Sunday. “Time for it to die.” (The agency encoded in the Federal Law and the court's challenges are able to argue that Musk's actions are illegal.)
While Trump's criticism of the sudden destruction of USAID, mostly focused on global public health projects, has long been entitled to the support of the dual party, this effort also threatens billions of dollars. La aims to fight climate change. The climate -related sponsorship of USAID helps low -income countries to build renewable energy and adapt to the natural disasters, as well as conserve sensitive carbon sinks and ecosystems. During the time of Joe Biden, USAID has accelerated efforts to focus on the climate as part of New ambitious new initiative That is thought to last until the end of the decade. That effort now seemed to have ended suddenly when USAID contractors around the world were about to prepare Give up important projects and dismiss employees.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, who took over USAID as an acting director, said that Musk's sudden closing was not about escaping from foreign aid. But even if USAID finally continues to operate to provide emergency humanitarian assistance such as hunger support and HIV prevention, the agency is still able to terminate all the work related to climate. Under the Trump administration. The result will be a shot on the Paris climate agreement as significant as the official withdrawal of the United States from the international treaty. By regaining billions of dollars that the National Assembly pledged to fight against global warming, the United States is ready to ruin the climate process far beyond its own borders.
Gillian Caldwell, who held the position of USAID's climate manager under the former President Biden, said many commitments under the Paris Agreement were sponsored, and it was a lot in danger.
The United States spends 1 percent of the federal budget for foreign aid, but that still makes the country the largest aid sponsor in the world so far. USAID distributes from 40 billion to 60 billion dollars each year, almost a quarter of all global humanitarian aid. While in recent years, the largest stock of that aid has arrived in Ukraine, Israel and Afghanistan, the agency also distributes billions of dollars to Latin America, Sahara and Southeast Asia, where it owner Weak helps promote food security, health and hygiene, and educational efforts.