The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is about to be closed, according to the multi -million dollar advisor of the government of Trump and general director of Tesla, Elon Musk, who has been fighting to take control of the agency in recent days.
On early Monday, Musk made a live session on X Spaces, previously known as Twitter Spaces, and said he spoke in detail about Usaid with the president. “He agreed that we should close it”Said Musk.
“It became evident that it is not an apple with a worm inside,” Musk said. “What we have is simply a ball of worms. You have to get rid of everything. It has no remedy. ”
“We are going to close it,” he added.
Their comments arrive after the Government suspended two leading Usaid security chiefs after they refused to deliver classified in restricted areas to Musk government inspection equipment, as they told The Associated Press on Sunday a current US official on Sunday and a former official.
Members of the Musk government efficiency department, known as Doge, finally obtained access to the classified information of the Humanitarian Agency on Saturday, which includes intelligence reports, said the former official.
Musk’s Doge team lacked sufficient security accreditation to access that information, so the two USAID security officials – John Voorhees and deputy director Brian McGill – were legally considered obliged to deny access.
The current and previous US officials were aware of the incident and spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the information.
Musk responded to an X post on the news on Sunday by saying that “Usaid is a criminal organization. It’s time to disappear. ” Then he made other additional publications on X on the aid agency.
Kate Miller, who is part of an Advisory Council for Doge, said in a separate publication that “classified material was not accessed” without adequate security accreditations. “
This happened a day after Doge carried out a similar operation in the Treasury Department, where he obtained access to sensitive information such as the payment systems of Social Security and Medicare clients. The Washington Post reported that a high treasure officer had resigned because the Musk team accessed sensitive information.
Musk He formed Doge in cooperation with the Trump government with the declared objective of finding ways to fire federal workers, cutting programs and reducing federal regulations.
USAID, whose website disappeared on Saturday without explanation, has been one of the federal agencies most attacked by Trump’s government within a growing repression against the federal government and many of its programs.
“It has been directed by a lot of radical lunatics. And we are taking them out “Trump told reporters about USAID on Sunday night.
The Trump government and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, have imposed an unprecedented freezing in foreign assistance that has closed a large part of the Usaid humanitarian and security programs throughout the world, forcing thousands of layoffs for Part of aid organizations, and ordered suspensions and permits that have decimated the leadership and agency staff in Washington.
The United States is, with much, the largest worldwide donor of humanitarian aid, with USAID managing billions of dollars in humanitarian, development and security assistance in more than 100 countries.
Peter Marocco, a political appointment that returns from Trump’s first mandate, was one of the leaders in closing execution. Usaid employees said that the people who presented themselves at the agency with visitors identifications and asked the employees within the headquarters in Washington were members of the Musk Doge team.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren said in a publication on Sunday that Trump was allowing Musk to access people’s personal information and suspend government financing.
“We must do everything in our power to resist and protect people from damage,” The Massachusetts senator said without giving details.
Source: Gestion
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