
The U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement, or USAID, is pictured Saturday in Washington.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he’s now the appearing director the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement, following the Trump administration’s sudden freeze on federal overseas spending.
Chatting with reporters in El Salvador on Monday, Rubio accused the company of not cooperating with requests for info on the way it spent taxpayer {dollars}.
Earlier on Monday, Elon Musk introduced that his Division of Authorities Effectivity was within the means of “shutting down USAID.”
USAID staff woke as much as an e-mail telling them the headquarters in Washington, D.C., can be closed for the day and that they need to work at home.
Some Democratic members of Congress are talking out towards the Trump administration’s efforts to halt most of USAID’s work.
“That is an entity that was created by federal statute, codified by federal statute, and one thing that can’t be modified, can’t be eliminated besides by actions of Congress,” Democratic Sen. Andy Kim of New Jersey stated, as demonstrators gathered outdoors USAID headquarters.
Based in 1961, the company manages billions of {dollars} in federal humanitarian help around the globe. However its work was been thrown into upheaval within the final week, because the Trump administration halted practically all its packages.
Whereas Rubio stated he’s formally the appearing director of USAID, he stated he has “delegated that authority to somebody, however I keep in contact with him,” with out naming the individual he’s delegating to.
He stated there are issues that USAID does “that we should always proceed to do and we’ll proceed to do. However every little thing they do needs to be in alignment with the nationwide curiosity and the overseas coverage of the USA.”
This can be a creating story that can doubtless be up to date.
NPR’s Fatma Tanis, Hansi Lo Wang and Shannon Bond contributed reporting.
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