Elon Musk's Efficiency of the Ministry of the Government (DOGE) has withdrawn the U.S. International Development Agency (USAID), taking a group More than 10,000 Only less than 300, according to an internal email viewed by Wired and some current USAID employees.
This move leaves only 12 people in the African office of the agency and eight people in its Asian office, with about 290 overall. There will be some additional foreign workers, the two USAID employees told Wired, but it is not clear.
There are more poor people in Asia than anywhere else, and our presence always helps to fight the influence of China, he said, an employee of USAID, who was hidden for concerns about the concern Revenge and because they are not authorized to talk publicly about the company.
On Tuesday, USAID workers Receive an email Note that all employees will be administratively off from Friday, February 7, except Cameron's appointed employees responsible for the important functions of the mission. The notice was published on the agency's website shortly thereafter. It also appoints that workers of the overseas agency will be recovered to the United States.
USAID and the US Department of Foreign Affairs did not respond immediately to comments.
This is not an unexpected move. USAID has been a special target in Musk's Crosshairs games, with Centibillionaire Call it A crime organization “on X and proud Regarding feeding it through a wooden plug.
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President Donald Trump also hostile the same as this agency. One of his first actions after taking office last month was to sign a executive command to freeze foreign aid, largely conducted by USAID. Already, the change has hindered the anti -trafficking work, including projects that help people get rid of the labor compounds where they are forced to be slaves and are forced to perform digital frauds, with wire report On Wednesday.
Although the government later clarified that Lifesaving's work will be allowed to continue under the emergency exemption program, the chaos of this agency has made this unable to do. Wired report On Monday, the important HIV/AIDS work was broken, with workers on the ground in countries like Haiti could not access anti -viral drugs, although most of that work was from technical.
Meanwhile, some current employees who are stationed abroad have not been notified about the latest changes of the agency. The only official media that I received was from the local Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asking or when we moved so that they could renovate our home, according to a USAID worker stationed in the country. outside.