This story originally Appeared in the GRT and is part of the cooperation of the weather desk.
As part of a widespread effort to bypass Congress and reduce government spending, the Donald Trump administration conducts all operations at the US International Development Agency or USAID, independent federal institution that offers humanitarian aid and economic development budget worldwide , Shut down. On the first day of his presidency, President Trump halted the executive order and stopped all USAID budget and the agency subsequently issued a stop -stop order for almost all recipients, from soup kitchens in Sudan to the World Humanity Group. .
Since then, the new efficiency of the Elvan government has closed the Agency’s website, locked the staff from its email account and closed the Washington Agency’s office.
Mask released on Sunday in X: “USAID is a criminal organization.” “Time to die.” (This agency is encrypted in the federal law, and the challenges of the court probably argues that the actions of the mask itself are illegal.)
While criticism of Trump’s sudden destruction of USAID has been largely focused on global public health projects that have long received bilateral support, the effort also threaten billions of dollars to combat climate change. . USAID climate budget helps low -income countries create renewable energy and adapt to worse disasters as well as maintaining carbon sinks and sensitive ecosystems. During the Joe Biden government, USAID accelerated climate -based efforts as part of the new ambitious initiative that was supposed to last by the end of the decade. It seems that the effort is now over, as USAID contractors around the world are ready to leave important projects and abandon employees.
The Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, who has taken USAID as an acting director, has said that the mask’s sudden shutdown is not “to get rid of foreign aid.” But even if USAID eventually resumes operations to provide humanitarian emergency aid such as famine and HIV prevention, the agency is still likely to terminate all the climate -related work under the Trump administration. The result could be a blow to the Paris climate agreement, exactly as Trump’s official withdrawal from the United States from the international treaty. The United States is ready to deprive climate progress beyond its borders by collecting billions of dollars that Congress has previously committed to combating global warming.
“This torch is the development programs that the American people have paid for,” said Jillian Caldwell, who served as a senior USAID president as the former President of Biden. “Many of the obligations under the Paris Agreement are financing, and this is very dangerous.”
The United States spends less than 1 % of its federal budget on foreign aid, but it still turns the country into the world’s largest donor. USAID distributes between $ 40 and $ 60 billion a year – about a quarter of all global humanitarian aid. While in recent years the largest shares of this aid have gone to Ukraine, Israel and Afghanistan, the agency has also distributed billions of dollars to Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia, where primarily promoting food security, health and health. Helps. Health and education measures.
