Washington (AP) Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said on Monday that the Trump administration ended its six-week cleaning of the programs of the six decades-old American agency for international development, and he would move the 18% of the auxiliary and development work that survived under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Hours later, a federal judge said that Trump exceeded his authority to close the most foreign lend a hand, and said that the government could no longer simply sit on the billions of dollars that the congress for foreign lend a hand had provided. But judge Amir H. Ali stopped ordering Trump officials to apply the money to revive the thousands of termination program contracts.
Rubio made his announcement in a post on X on Monday in one of his few public comments on a historical change in US external lend a hand and development, which was carried out by Trump’s political representatives at State and Elon Muskt Department of Government Efficiency Teams.
Rubio in the post office thanked Doge and “our hard -working employees who worked for a very long time to achieve this overdue and historical reform” in foreign lend a hand.
On January 20, President Donald Trump issued an executive regulation that headed for freezing foreign aid financing and a review of all US lend a hand and development work abroad. Trump accused that a immense part of foreign aid was wasteful and prescribed a liberal agenda.
Rubios Social -Media post on Monday said that the review has now “officially ended”, with around 5,200 of the 6,200 programs of USAAIAD being eliminated.
These programs “spent tens of billions in a way that did not serve (and in some cases even injured), the national core interests of the United States,” wrote Rubio.
“In consultation with the congress, we intend to ensure that the remaining 18% of the programs we hold … in the Foreign Ministry are managed more effectively,” he said.
Democratic legislators and others illegally describe the closure of programs in the congress and said that such a step requires the consent of the congress.
In his injunction on Monday, Ali said that Trump could not simply ignore most of the foreign financing of around 60 billion US dollars, which were handed over by Congress to the USAID and the state, which has the authority after the US constitution.
“The constitutional authority of whether foreign help should spend is not the president’s own – and it is that of the congress,” wrote Ali.
However, Ali rejected the application from non -profit groups and companies to revive the canceled contracts for foreign aid work worldwide, and said it was to make decisions about certain contracts.
Ali also ordered Trump officials, all billions of dollars that lend a hand for the auxiliary groups and companies by mid-February, and ordered them to do this at a speed of at least 300 rejections a day.
Ali’s decision came after the Supreme Court rejected the Trump government’s appeal in this case.
USAD supporters said that the cuts made it complex to say which the Trump administration actually supports us.
“The patterns that occur is that the administration does not support democracy programs, they do not support civil society … they do not support NGO programs” or health or emergency reaction, said Andrew Natsios, the USAID administrator of the Republican former President George W. Bush.
“So what’s left?” Asked Natsios.
The Trump administration gave almost no details about what lend a hand and development efforts abroad had spared them when they measure the contracts to the auxiliary groups and other USAID partners within a few days of this month. The quick pace and the steps that were skipped during end contracts let the supporters of the USAID question whether actual program-by-program reviews had taken place.
Auxiliary groups say that even some life -saving programs that Rubio and others had promised to come or end in the suspension, e.g.
On the whole, the Republicans have made it clear that they want foreign lend a hand that would promote a much closer interpretation of the national interests of the United States in the future.
The Foreign Ministry in one of several lawsuits in which it is fighting for its rapid closure of the USA had announced at the beginning of this month to kill more than 90% of the USAID programs. Rubio did not explain why his number was lower.
The reduction of USAID, which followed Trump’s command, made decades of politics that humanitarians and development aid abroad stabilized the national security of the United States by stabilizing regions and economies, strengthening alliances and building goodwill.
In the weeks after Trump’s command, one of his members and member of the transition team, Pete Marocco, and Musk, and Musk, the USAI staff all over the world did through forced leaves and shots, the USASID payments overnight and terminated lend a hand and development contracts of thousands.
Work ended contractors and employees who lead from epidemic control to the prevention of famine to jobs and democratic training. Auxiliary groups and other USAID partners took out tens of thousands of their workers in the United States and abroad.
During the closure, many USAID employees and contacts and their families were still covered in overseas, many of which are waiting for repayments and travel expenses to return home.
The Trump administration gave the USA’s employees until April 6 on Monday to return to the United States if they want to do this on the government’s tab, as seen from a USAID -E -EIM and the Associated Press. The employees say that the deadline hardly gives them time to pull children out of school, sell houses or break rental contracts and find a place for many that can live outside the USA after years.
In Washington, the three men – Rubio, Muschus and Marocco – sometimes made contradictory commands that monitor the USAI cuts, many made unsafe who called the shots, and driven the talk about power struggles.
Musk and Rubio on Monday, as Trump had last week, insisted that the relationships between the two were velvety.
“Good work with them,” tweeted Musk in response to Rubios announcement.
“Hard but necessary,” wrote Musk about Rubios announcement about the cuts.
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Associate Press Writer Lindsay Whitehurst contributed.
