WASHINGTON: The US authorities’s large humanitarian company USAID on Tuesday (Feb 4) introduced it was putting its employees in the USA and all over the world on administrative go away because it moved to recall staff from abroad postings.
The company mentioned in a press release on its web site that the employees go away will start shortly earlier than midnight on Feb 7 and can concern “all USAID direct rent personnel … apart from designated personnel accountable for mission-critical features, core management and specifically designated packages”.
“Thanks on your service,” the assertion learn.
The transfer is a part of Trump’s – and his billionaire ally Elon Musk’s – radical drive to shrink the US government, which has shocked Washington and triggered indignant protests from Democrats and the human rights group.
The aid arm of US foreign policy, USAID funds well being and emergency packages in round 120 nations, together with the world’s poorest areas.
It’s seen as an important supply of soppy energy for the USA in its battle for affect with rivals together with China, the place Musk has extensive business interests.
Musk has known as USAID “a viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America” and has vowed to close it down.
